Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive

2003-01-10 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Hari Bhaskaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?) AFAIK, the partition info is entirely within the first sector of the slice. The slice info is entirely within the first sector of the disk. (There's other info in them too, so res

Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hari Bhaskaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?) > (At least for future installations?) I run vinum (mirrored across > two disks) on other machines (which I installed recently), but this > machine was instal

Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive

2003-01-10 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:41:48PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > located. (Eg, "dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/somedir/bigfile skip=_somenum_ \ > count=_someothernum_") Again, it's not much good for anything but > copying back and trying again, but you might be able to find some > ASCII text of importanc

Re: Recovering data from a faulty drive

2003-01-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Hari Bhaskaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any chance? I only need a couple of files recovered. Saving copies of the boot records and disklabels ain't a bad idea and not hard to do. Just something more to do... Anyway. Sounds like your MBR's partition table got messed up. If you w