On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:56:21 -0700 Brad Midgley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Does it have a partition table? It is possible there is none, and the file system is raw. That is how Mess-DOS floppies work. Try "fdisk -l". If it returns garbage, try mounting the drive device. > > 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. > > */ > > > > > -- 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. */
