was... [/DEV/HDA] BIG BIG EMERGENCY! (was since 28092001) Christopher Mahmood schrieb:
* Oliver Ob (ob_ok@gmx.net) [020329 15:04]:
thanks christopher. But how can I repair this and get access back to the partitions?
with mknod...now that I think about it I doubt this is problem. You can check with 'ls -l /dev/hda*' though. What does fdisk -l /dev/hda say about the disk?
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-ckm
Hi Christopher, now that I reinstalled my laptop after hd-crash I found this old mail in an old backup. Should I try mknod /dev/hda1? It is clear to me that the DOS-signature on /dev/hda1 is wiped, since I cleared the first xxxx bytes of hda1 to get any access at all. The partition table was gone due to physical errors. Now I ran gpart and it told me some values which I wrote on hda using fdisk, so to answer your above question: I cannot "ls" on hda1, reason as said. But fdisk shows a FAT partition, just according to what gpart told me. Now, I can cat /dev/hda1 and see (after tons of zeros, which I had to write to get back any access to hda at all) my autoexec bat and so forth. So all the files are there. My idea is now to somehow "fake" or "write" a DOS signature onto hda1 and then simply copy all files off the disk. While I am typing this, I managed to evacuate hda3 (linux) and hda4 (data) drives to a secure second harddrive. It is just copying the files off the hda2 right now. So how can I generate a DOS-signature and write it to hda1? man mknod, but that did not tell me much. Kind regards (this message is not being cross posted, I hope :-) ) -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I
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