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my compyer lost power and now wont see hard drive says it is busy

Asked by angel rundell

my computer came unplugged and therefore want shut down properly now ubuntu wont load back up it says drive isnt there

in live cd mode it says its is busy so it cant be mounted

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

fsck the drive in live CD. You may need to force mount the partition, then umount it gracefully

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angel rundell (nike) said : 		#2

is it supposed to take a really long time to force mount it? it seems like its not doing anything ..

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Possibly. Did you do it in a terminal?

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angel rundell (nike) said : 		#4

yes, it just has flashing cursor , its been almost an hour

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Doesn't sound good. May need to reinstall

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angel rundell (nike) said : 		#6

ok well is there anyway to save the files from the hard drive?

I want to copy them to an external drive but obviously the computers not reading it.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Use your backups

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Michael Wood (mwood) said : 		#8

Do you see anything if you type the following?

sudo fdisk -l

It should show you the partitions on the hard drive.

Then for any partitions that show as "Linux" (Not Linux swap or Linux LVM etc. Just Linux) try:

sudo fsck /dev/sdaN

(e.g. /dev/sda1)

Maybe that will fix it, but it depends on exactly what the problem is.

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