The 02.12.26 at 20:11, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
The original drive was running SuSE 8.0 with an ext2 filesystem and 3 partiitions.../dev/hdc1 was the boot partition, /dev/hdc2 was a swap partition, and /dev/hdc3 held the files that I'm looking for. I did try mounting the dd_rescue file and failed.
I also tried running parted and got an unrecognized disk label message. So I tried mklabel and got a read/write error.
I've tried fdisk, e2fsck, and gpart with minimal success,
The only thing I can think of to try is reinstalling SuSE. Back when it first crashed, I tried mounting the drive using the cds and it didn't recognize that there was a system on the disk. I'm afraid that SuSE's install program will format the disk and I'll lose the contents.
Any thoughts? Hilary
If what you want is to recover files, you should check first the partition table; gpart should do it, but it is not automatic. The best thing is a printed copy, in paper, of the partition table! Then, fdisk can be used to rebuild that table: just setting the same partitions on the same places and sizes should do - the Linux fdisk is different from the windows/dos fdisk, because it doesn't initialize the disk, it just writes the partition table. If that step is impossible, then I'm not sure you can do anything, except repartition and reformat the entire drive, loosing everything. And if it is damaged, then nothing: just do a wall clock out of it. There are companies specialized in data recovery, though... I guess they make good money :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson