Thanks Curtis. I appreciate it. R. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Do you know of a good tool to do this...
: On Wed September 8 2004 10:10, J. Rafael S�nchez wrote: : > I have a maxtor 250Gb, fat32 that windows xp corrupted ( according to the : > tech support at maxtor - this is what windows xp does...Remind me why do we : > use windows again...?) Anyway, They say that, according to the installation : > manual they "strongly recommend to format these drives immediately as ntfs" : > Well, I have purchased close to 20 of these drives in the last year for : > many of my users. One of them, I guess, forgot to read the stinking manual. : > : > Using diskprobe, I've been able to see that the disk configuration : > information has been zeroed out. I've been able to put back information : > about the starting and ending head, cylinders, and sectors, and even the : > system ID. What I don't know how to do is to put back the "Signature, : > Starting offset, Partition length, starting sector and partition number. : > : > Do you know of a good recovery, diagnostic tool that would allow me to : > manipulate the disk configuration information? : : gpart, a.k.a. "Guess PC-type hard disk : partitions" (http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/) is handy for : this kind of thing, but as its expanded name implies, not for the : faint-of-heart or those in a rush. :-) : : Theres also parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/) although its not : really a recovery tool. : : Some standard Unix tools (dd, cfdisk, a hex editor, etc.) could come in handy : as well. How you piece together and/or create the _exact_ data for a given : partition structure is well beyond me, though. Pretty dicey stuff, I would : expect (from my readings in the past, it seemed pretty like one would need an : in-depth understanding of disk layouts (MBR, etc.) and the filesystem in : question). : : I guess another tool you will probably want/need, then, is Google. :-) : : HTH, : Curtis : : _______________________________________________ : clug-talk mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca : _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
