-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF45ZMtTMYHG2NR9URAjDbAJ9gv1CxbsCZ6PZOv7SpV37x/fPxnQCfe3a9 +i5t5bgrna1EdTmh7H7MwcY= =ohAA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org