On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:11:53 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Testdisk can't see anything. The gpart program sees the partition, but > > it will not write back to the disk, or to the iso ( needs a physical > > disk device ), or ( surprisingly ) to the .iso written back to another > > disk. > > Not particularly clever, but does it show you the block numbers of the > partition starts? That's all you need to make a new partition table with > fdisk or cfdisk, or to copy out the individual filesystems. Yes, unfortnately it states that it starts at cyl 0, head 1, sector 1. can't mount it as a loop. Have been looking for a list of magic numbers to try and manually locate and chop out the partition, but no luck yet. > > If fdisk doesn't want to operate on disk image files, create the table > on a real disk (preferably same model) and transplant the first block > with dd. Tried that, but it won't actually update the disk. Does Knoppix do some weird write protect?? > > Btw drop the word "ISO" here, that is specifically referring to a > filesystem in ISO9660 format, which you don't have on your dead hard > disk. Fair one. Please read disk image. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
