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Some how I've managed to screw up my HD.
/dev/sda17 - witch was made for storage is totally locked I can't unmount it, can't write to it, can't delete it and not format it. Can't even make i work from a live-DVD.
Anybody who knows of a tool to repair this with out deleting or harm any other partitions on the HD or else I have just to pretend it's only a 700GB disk

Try testdisk app,it's in synaptic.

stanca wrote:Try testdisk app,it's in synaptic.

Than you staca, but unfortunately it didn't give me anything I could use - but it was a good suggestion

Don't know if any will help, but here's a list of free partition manager software...

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities ... tors.shtml

Probably not the cause but could windows have performed an unclean shutdown locking the drive? Can you access the 53Gb through windows? Try loading into windows and then closing down to see if it unlocks...?

Cheers.

Thank you all, I had a busy day and ain't got time to try it out yet - but hopefully tomorrow

The only thing that I know of that will lock a partition is windows,or the partition is mounted.Perhaps some how its using the one in question as a recovery partition?

There's something odd going on in this PC, but fist - it's a home-build, ordered home as parts picked by me, so I'm sure there's no back-up or recovery partition. The partition i quest has never been mounted in windows, so this time windows has no part of the issue. Strangely enough it seems to be Linux Mint, because after deleting both partitions with Mint the issue is gone. Even more strange - Mint 7 has been on the disk sines it's release. The loss ain't very big - it was mostly installed out of curiosity and it's over a month sines I've had it open last

I had funky things happen with mint too.or now on if want something from their repos I just enable the latest mint repo,and get the deb.... wont do a full install again.Glad its worked out.


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After deleting those Mint partitions, I have got a new error When closing my PC I ends up with a black screen saying that it's stopping different things and services. The last line says: "Stopping early crypto disks..." and a blinking courser at the end of the line. It stops there (only difference next morning is that the screen is on pause ) the system don't power off and the keyboard don't work either at that point.

Google don't give me anything - there's a lot hits with "starting early crypto disks" but no stopping.
Reinstalling those packages - who might be related - shown in synaptic when searching with "crypto" don't help either.
Anybody with any idea Having to close with the power-button on the cabinet every day doesn't seem to a valid solution

NB, There is no problem when i reboot.