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Hi :)
First I tried to "enable" my USB stick. You can skip what I did before I
got a serious problem with one of my hard disk drives.
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I thought the USB stick wasn't auto-mounted, because there was no icon
on the desktop after the 64 Studio 2.1 session started, but it was
recognized by gparted and cfdisk, anyhow I tried to take access to the
stick by dd, gparted and cfdisk, with and without disconnecting and
connecting it again.
I disconnected the USB stick again, waited around 30 seconds and
connected it again. It lasted around 10 seconds until the USB stick's
LED stopped flashing and stayed giving light. I waited more then a
minute and again tried some commands.
64studio:/home/spinymouse# mount -t vfat -o rw,umask=0000 /dev/sdb1
/home/spinymouse/Desktop/usb-stick
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
64studio:/home/spinymouse# cfdisk -z /dev/sdb
Disk has been changed.
WARNING: If you have created or modified any
DOS 6.x partitions, please see the cfdisk manual
page for additional information.
The messages of cfdisk:
"cfdisk 2.12r
Disk Drive: /dev/sdb
Size: 8086618112 bytes, 8086 MB
Heads: 249 Sectors per Track: 62 Cylinders: 1023
Name
Flags
Part Type Pri/Log
FS Type Free Space
[Label]
Size (MB) 8086.06
I tried to partition it.
Name sdb1
Flags Boot
Part Type Primary
FS Type W95 FAT32
[Label]
Size (MB) 8086.06
Writing partition table to disk...
Wrote partition table to disk
Toggle bootable flag of the current partition"
I quit cfdisk by pressing q.
I've done this before, but before I got an error message that differs
from other messages, but I can't remember it. It was something like
"Wrote partition table to disk ... couldn't re-read. I started to note
everything and not only to note nearly everything. Gparted before
running the latest cfdisk informed about "Unable to open /dev/sdb -
unrecognized label".
I disconnected the USB stick and connected it again. Still no icon on
the desktop, this time I checked computer:/// and there was an icon
/Intenso Rainbow. I right clicked on the icon and clicked "Mount
Volume", it stopped with an error.
"Unable to mount the selected volume. The volume is probably in a format
that cannot be mounted.
libhal-storage.c 1344 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but
dbuserror was not set.
libhal-storage.c 1345 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but
dbuserror was not set.
libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called libhal_free_dbus_error but
dbuserror was not set.
process 6152: applications must not close shared connections - see
dbus_connection_close() docs. this is a bug in the application.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or other error
in some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or other error
in some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
error: could not execute pmount"
I run cfdisk again, this time without the -z option. Again I only got
the free space message.
I rebooted into Windows XP Pro.
I only take access to the USB stick using different partition software
and to nothing else. Before I tried to format and partition I looked for
information.
The USB stick was active. There was one partition for the stick,
yesterday there were 3 "strange" partitions (seen by Windows, not by
Linux), maybe something changed by dd or any other Linux command. Trying
to format and partition by Windows failed with the error that the USB
stick is write protected.
All hard disk drives still were okay.
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I rebooted into the 64 Studio 3.0-beta3 installer DVD.
I ONLY watched the installer's partition tool and quit "Write changes to
disk?" with "<No>". I wasn't tired or drunken and note each step I did
in longhand. I was focused to each step I did.
I choose "Execute a shell", there was no folder /target.
I rebooted into the BIOS. USB 2.0 was enabled. I quit the BIOS without
saving and turned of the computer and turned of the power for the power
supply. I connected the USB stick to another USB slot and disconnected
the cables of my 2 hard disk drives, an IDE and a SATA.
I turned everything on and booted the 3.0-beta3 install DVD again.
This time I tried to format the USB stick by different options, but it
didn't worked. I executed a shell again, this time there was a folder
/target, but it was empty, yesterday after the install it wasn't empty
(even if I couldn't access the stick).
After "Abort the installation" and turning of the power again, I
connected the cables to the hard disk drives.
I booted 64 Studio 2.1 (amd64, Etch) from the SATA hard disk drive. GRUB
is on the IDE drive. I need to continue the start up by Ctrl+D, because
a file system failed. When the session had started I $ cat
/var/log/fsck/checkfs "[snip] fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve
'LABEL="ide_copy"' [snip] fsck died with exit status 8 [snip]"
# gparted only detected one partition on my IDE hard disk drive, but
there should be IDE #1 and #5 to #10.
At this point I get tired, but I still wasn't drunken. To be on the safe
side I only watched what a Suse 11.1 DVD recovery tool is able to do,
without executing any recovery. It didn't found the wanted partitions.
The latest backuped MBRs I found were from 2009-01-04, before I did the
XP install. It might be, that this MBRs are fine to recover the
seemingly broken MBR, but it also might be, that I changed the
partitions before I installed XP and that I don't have an actual MBR
backup, I need to read some notes. I've got relative actual True Image
backups for the first partition of the IDE hard disk drive, but I don't
know if the MBR is within these backups. I even don't know if the MBR is
broken or something else.
The first partition of the IDE is Windows XP Pro, I didn't try to boot
it, but I did try to boot some Linux from the IDE and booting failed
with the GRUB error 22 "No such partition". I still can boot Linux by
GRUB from the IDE, that are on the SATA. The SATA seems to be fine.
*Any hints how to recover the partitions* and if it's safe to backup the
broken IDE drive *are welcome*. I'm now to tired to google, read and
risk anything, the only thing I'll try to do now, is to take a look, if
the Suse recovery tools can find any Linux on the IDE drive, but I won't
boot or try to repair them until I'm full focused again.
I still have a BAC of 0 per cent, but I guess I will change this after I
looked one more time to the Suse recovery tools.
It's not clear if there's a bug for my 3.0-beta3 install DVD or a
hardware problem with my computer, or both, but anything else seems to
be hardly probable.
Cheers,
Ralf
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