Hi Aram
the best tool to recover deleted partitions or corrupted partition table is testdisk
it worked for me successfully several times
but it will not work with HW corruption
the best tool to recover deleted partitions or corrupted partition table is testdisk
it worked for me successfully several times
but it will not work with HW corruption
Aram Yegenian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi guys,
i'm trying to resurrect a failed hard disk and/or filesystem, it seems i'm missing the partition table (ooooh i didn't know that can be done!), question is would i find any backup copies around on the hard disk (something like the redundant superblocks scattered around)?
here's what happened in details:
i have an application running on an aging test pc with a constant load of ~18, it was fun watching the system barely handle the load. it's a dual boot machine with windows xp and fc4.
after two months the hard disk finally gave in and the terminal kept spouting i/o sync errors. i forced sync and remount in read only mode then an immediate reboot (Magic Sysrq + s/u/b).
grub took a while to go past stage2, kernel and initrd were loaded fine then after a while i got a "unable to read /dev/hda" then it just hangs there!
i booted knoppix, it had difficulties in scanning the hard disk partitions, i tried fdisk -i i got nothing. i tried fdisk /dev/hda i got "unable to open device". sfdisk -l /dev/hda reports geometry errors and no partitions!
my guess is that somehow the filesystem got corrupt followed by the partition table, most probably a hardware failure.
as i said it's a test machine so i wouldn't lose much if i couldn't restore. i just like a good challenge, and the whole thing has me stumped!
any ideas could be useful to exorcise this drive, thanx :-)
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