Re: OT: fdisk - Data Recovered

2010-10-06 Thread Robert
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:42:49 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Ian I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted to respond to you. You have given a lot of good advice and

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Robert
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:52:21 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS. Should I remove

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:20:29 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in 47027.134085 secs (10634453 bytes/sec) ~ 14 hours later here is what I have.

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Robert
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:34:41 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:20:29 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Update [r...@asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m 476940+1 records in 476940+1 records out 500107862016 bytes transferred in

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
On Saturday 02 of October 2010 20:36:40 Robert wrote: Greetings Maybe good tool will be System Rescue CD, Linux Live distribution, it has a tool named ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs. See here: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:27:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use dd to capture 250 gigs from the old drive? Using da1 and

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Robert
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:34:13 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:29:35 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thanks for the info. I successfully did the above and now I have a 58.6GB file named disk.img on a UFS disk. Umm, what should I do now. Sorry for

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS. Should I remove formatting before I dd the 500GB drive to it? Not needed, as you're going to use it under the control of FreeBSD. After formatting and mounting it,

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Robert
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS. Should I remove formatting before I dd the 500GB drive to it? Not needed, as you're going

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 14:29:35 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thanks for the info. I successfully did the above and now I have a 58.6GB file named disk.img on a UFS disk. Umm, what should I do now. Sorry for dumb question number 37 this weekend but I am a bit confused. Can I do just

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:52:21 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: [r...@asus64] ~# fdisk /dev/md10 *** Working on device /dev/md10 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7648 heads=255

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 331, Issue 1, Message: 5 On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:19:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: Greetings

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Robert
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Ian I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted to respond to you. You have given a lot of good advice and information and I appreciate it. ~ fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Henry Olyer
And still the wife doesn't suspect? On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: Ian I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted to respond to you. You have given

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't.  Maybe a problem with the filesystem.  Might be repairable, although probably it would need

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 01:15:06 -0500, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that the above 'if' operand to dd should instead be /dev/da1 (without the 's1' slice). Also, the operand 'of' will need to point to a device, such as /dev/ad12, or a file on a mounted file system,

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:02:32 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Le Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net a écrit : I tried to use dd and copy data to another spare drive. It appears to work but then I can no longer mount that drive. Other than

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I should have mentioned that before. dd was the first thing I tried. I had an unused drive setup as UFS. Then did dd if=/dev/da1s1 of=/dev/ad12s1d bs=1m count=2000 I believe that the

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Oct 2 18:51:14 2010 Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:51:50 -0700 From: Robert travelin...@cox.net To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: fdisk On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:00:00

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Robert
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:19:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Which looks a lot better. I can mount /dev/da1 and it shows ~ ls -l /mnt total 70044 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2560 Dec 31 1600 $AttrDef -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 09:09

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use dd to capture 250 gigs from the old drive? Using da1 and ad12 as the if and of will the result be an NTFS formatted 250g drive? Will I have the same results, i.e. able to mount ad12

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Robert
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 19:40:45 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use dd to capture 250 gigs from the old drive? Using da1 and ad12 as the if and of will the result be an NTFS

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use dd to capture 250 gigs from the old drive? Using da1 and ad12 as the if and of will the result be an NTFS formatted 250g drive? Will I have the

OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Robert
Greetings I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. I pulled it and attached it via USB to one of my FreeBSD machines but it will not mount. It is a 500G hard drive and I get _wild_

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700, Robert travelin...@cox.net a écrit : I tried to use dd and copy data to another spare drive. It appears to work but then I can no longer mount that drive. Other than taking it to a data recovery shop does anyone have any idea. May be photorec will help (in

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net articulated: I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. If the disk is the problem, I would suggest getting a copy of

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 02.10.2010 21:08, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 Robert travelin...@cox.net articulated: I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. If the disk is the

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: Greetings I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. I pulled it and attached it via USB to one of my FreeBSD machines but it will not mount. It

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Robert
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: Greetings I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. I

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: But I cannot mount /dev/da1s1 ~ sudo mount_ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1: Invalid argument It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't. Maybe a problem with the filesystem. Might be repairable, although probably it would need

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-02 Thread Robert
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: It's weird that da1 can be mounted, but da1s1 can't. Maybe a problem with the filesystem. Might be repairable, although probably it would need proprietary programs. Don't experiment with the original drive,