On Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> If the partition table has been trashed, then /dev/hda1, hda2 etc are
> useless. What I'm interested in is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda".
ok, I gave it another try... I was not successful, but as you and some others
seem to be interested I deliver the asked infos:
here's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda:
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Disk /dev/hda: 8323 MB, 8323080192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 66 529985+ 82 Linux swap
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 0, 1) logical=(0, 1, 1)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(64, 254, 63) logical=(65, 250, 59)
/dev/hda2 * 66 2432 19004767 83 Linux
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(66, 0, 1) logical=(65, 250, 60)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1022, 254, 63) logical=(2431, 246, 55)
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as you see, the disk seems really messed up...
>
> Does the bios shows the correct size?
I guess this laptop has really seen it's best times a while ago. Now I can't
access the BIOS anymore, it asks me for a password to access it, but I never
installed one and had no problems before. So I don't know...
>
> And you don't mention using gpart.
Yes, sorry, I thought you were talking about gparted and just didn't type
the "ed" :-)
So here's the - disenchanting - output of gpart /dev/hda:
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Begin scan...
End scan.
Checking partitions...
Ok.
Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
Primary partition(2)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
Primary partition(3)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
Primary partition(4)
type: 000(0x00)(unused)
size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
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I was also looking at the website of testdisk, but there it says that the size
of the disk must be reported correctly to make the tool work successful - and
that exactly seems to be the problem.
>
> > I was just hoping there was a tool which I can download, burn on a CD,
> > boot with it and save the data on a floppy without the need of
> > knowing/thinking so much :-)
>
> A floppy is way too small! There is dd, of course, it does that, in raw.
Yes, for a whole disk copy of course. As there is no other disk in the laptop
(and I don't want to put that disk in my perfectly working desktop PC) I have
no possibility to make such a copy. It would have been great if I could just
save some files, but well...
>
regards
Daniel
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