-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-02-25 at 19:03 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote:
The HD (with Suse 10.0, ReiserFS) of my moms old laptop is broken and I thought, maybe there's a possibility to revover her e-mails and some OOo textfiles, but google wouldn't help me (I probably search wrong - find only commercial ads...).
Trying to mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 with the rescue system fails (it says: partition doesn't exist) The openSuse install CD says, "parted cannot format the disk". reiserfsck says the SuperBlock cannot be read - and I cannot rebuild the Superblock with reiserfsck because I don't know what answers I should type to the questions it asks....
The only thing I know is that it's a 20 G disk with a swap, a root and a home partition (with reiserfs). But I don't even know the sizes of the partitions or the version of reiserfs...
Is there a Linux tool to make a bootable CD, that will then search the disk and give possibility to save found files to a floppy?
I would prefer to take the disk out and work in my own computer, with that disk as "extra", then do an image of the whole thing, and work on it. Mind: use a new cable, 80 pin ide cable is fragile. First step is recognizing the partitions. Use "fdisk -l /dev/whateverdisk" to print the partition table. If it comes out empty, use "gpart" to guess them, and follow it's advice to recover them. The next step would be to fsck the partitions, but first, I would dd each one and work on the copy, not the original. But I'll leave that step for another post. I went this road recently, I almost lost 140GB. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF4wZ4tTMYHG2NR9URAnT4AJwPSgDOV0hQOwoFRX6EON4YQk80hgCffyXg M2p0jkBWB5VCfUwCdPZ7Uco= =Ff9K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org