On Sunday 14 January 2007 17:33, Steve Holdoway wrote: > 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. That's what gpart purports to do. Have you been able to dup. the entire disk to a known good one using dd_rescue?
How big is the crook source disk? > > 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?? Yes, it mounts the partitions read-only, but I'm not sure about the mbr. mount -o remount,rw ... ... is the incantation to enable writing to a partition. [ ... ] -- CS
