-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johnny Stork wrote:
| So does anyone have any other suggestions on how I could recover this | partition? ~ Before you do too much to it, could you dd a copy of the drive to another one? Most recovery processes are one-shot deals, usually destroying any chance of repair if they fail. ~ As for actual solutions, Parted can apparently recover partitions. I don't know how well it wil work without the superblock intact, but it's worth a shot: http://www.auth.gr/mirrors/gnu/manual/parted-1.6.1/html_node/parted_25.html#SEC24 ~ I've also run across a set of tools called The Coroner's Toolkit. They designed for doing post-mortems on hacked machines, but two of them can recover data on a sector-by-sector basis. I don't remember anything specifically for MP3s, but the tools are a collection of Perl, C, and shell scripting, so it shouldn't be hard to adapt it if you are really desperate. Be warned that these tools need a ton of room; 5GB of data generates 11GB of forensics: http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html ~ Their site also led me to @stake, who offer "the only open source forensic toolkit for a complete analysis of Microsoft and UNIX file systems". While a bit boastful, the feature set seems better than TCT: http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/task/ | btw: No errors have showed up since from that drive and so I beleive | it is NOT a hard drive problem and was related to the loose cable. ~ I wouldn't have thought a loose cable could cause that behavior. Thanks for the tip! ~ HJ Hornbeck -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE92nBgbYQU8p5saQIRAkOCAKDIJ4FmkZpJrzC5K26Of1B/ey51VACfVlxu vee5Pp25VPpVGiGhPVes438= =LAnb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
