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Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:24:01 +0100 (CET)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702270301490.8131@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Monday 2007-02-26 at 19:46 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Hello Sandy, Daniel, Patrick, Carlos, Teruel, James, Bandi... :-)
>
> thank you very much for your hints. Meanwhile I have downloaded several "live
> CD's and tried with them what I was able to, till now with no success.
> Nothing really important has been lost, so I will not invest too much work on
> that topic.
>
> I don't now what happened. Somehow it looks as just the whole disk is rotten.
It happened to me not yet three weeks ago. I suspect the cable.
> The BIOS shows it, but fdisk, gparted etc. show a 7.something GB disk, what
> in fact was a 20 GB disk. It doesn't find /dev/hda1 nor /dev/hda2 and parted
> says, it can't work with a partition outside of the disk...
If the partition table has been trashed, then /dev/hda1, hda2 etc are
useless. What I'm interested in is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda".
Does the bios shows the correct size?
And you don't mention using gpart.
> I was just hoping there was a tool which I can download, burn on a CD, boot
> with it and save the data on a floppy without the need of knowing/thinking so
> much :-)
A floppy is way too small! There is dd, of course, it does that, in raw.
>
> (In my early computer days, on NCR systems, we had a "dump"-command and it
> just printed out the raw contents of a disk in hexadecimal form, even from an
> unmounted disk, if I remember correctly. Well, it was a 40 MB (yes, "MB"
> not "GB"!) disk, so probably not quite the same as nowadays...)
You have "hex" and similar tools.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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The Monday 2007-02-26 at 19:46 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Hello Sandy, Daniel, Patrick, Carlos, Teruel, James, Bandi... :-)
>
> thank you very much for your hints. Meanwhile I have downloaded several "live
> CD's and tried with them what I was able to, till now with no success.
> Nothing really important has been lost, so I will not invest too much work on
> that topic.
>
> I don't now what happened. Somehow it looks as just the whole disk is rotten.
It happened to me not yet three weeks ago. I suspect the cable.
> The BIOS shows it, but fdisk, gparted etc. show a 7.something GB disk, what
> in fact was a 20 GB disk. It doesn't find /dev/hda1 nor /dev/hda2 and parted
> says, it can't work with a partition outside of the disk...
If the partition table has been trashed, then /dev/hda1, hda2 etc are
useless. What I'm interested in is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda".
Does the bios shows the correct size?
And you don't mention using gpart.
> I was just hoping there was a tool which I can download, burn on a CD, boot
> with it and save the data on a floppy without the need of knowing/thinking so
> much :-)
A floppy is way too small! There is dd, of course, it does that, in raw.
>
> (In my early computer days, on NCR systems, we had a "dump"-command and it
> just printed out the raw contents of a disk in hexadecimal form, even from an
> unmounted disk, if I remember correctly. Well, it was a 40 MB (yes, "MB"
> not "GB"!) disk, so probably not quite the same as nowadays...)
You have "hex" and similar tools.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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