Along these lines, is there anything special you would recommend for a bad sdcard? this card immediately fails to read the partition table when it's attached through a usb reader. I tried another reader with the same result.
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Charles Curley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:11:48 -0700 > Jonathan Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Take it to your computer and run TestDisk on it. Awesome sweet tool. >> >> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > > Nice. It appears to be available from the Ubuntu repos. > > At a lower level, also available from Ubuntu repos, is smartctl. It is > for querying and manipulating the drive's onboard test software. It has > a GUI, gsmartcontrol. > > How badly damaged is the drive? Can you even see it with "fdisk -l"? > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Brad Midgley /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
