Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 21:53:23 Kevin O'Gorman did opine And Gene did reply: I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else

Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 09:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else that wanted to scan partitions. I

Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kevin O'Gorman (kogor...@gmail.com): I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else that wanted to scan partitions. I

Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Joseph Loo
On 01/21/2015 06:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else that wanted to scan partitions. I

How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else that wanted to scan partitions. I overwrote the first 4K with zeroes, deleted the