Hiep Nguyen spake the following on 8/2/2007 7:33 AM: > and when i typed dmesg | tail and i got this: > > Additional sense: Write error > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 39776936 > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 4972117 > scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 02 5e f2 a8 00 > 00 08 00 > Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense: Write error > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 39776936 > Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 4972117 > FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. > > > anyone got any idea? > Sounds like the drive is past corrupt and actually dead. You might need to try some recovery software, or if the data is real important, send it out to a recovery service like Ontrack or Drivesavers. That option is very pricey, though. I just sent in a 160 GB USB drive that our engineer was storing stuff to, and it ran near $2000.00 USD. He has since been flogged for not using company standard data storage practices. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!