Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
At 12:39 PM 3/21/2008, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... If the mechanics and other workings are good, try testdisk at: www.testdisk.org -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:50PM -0400, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Depends a little on what actually happened to it. If you just smotched the boot sector, it should be recoverable as a data disk. First, you need to find out as much as you can about the condition of the disk. For that, you will need to run fdisk(8) and then maybe bsdlabel(8) to get information. Presuming the system recognizes the drive as /dev/ad1 do: fdisk ad1 Look at what it tells you. Most of it is just boilerplace verbiage, but mixed in there should be some valuable information. What you want to find is how many slices are actually configured. There can be up to 4, numberes 1..4 If a slice is being used, it should have information about it, including size in sectors, what type, if it is bootable and if it is marked active for booting. Ignore the cylinders/tracks/sectors stuff. Just look at the slice size in sectors/blocks. The type will tell you if it is FreeBSD formatted slice or Messy Dos. FreeBSD is type 165 if I remember correctly. If you can get this kind of information, then there should be enough left to get more with bsdlabel and possibly even read data. I don't remember how far back FreeBSD switched from disklabel to bsdlabel. They are functionally the same, so use whichever your FreeBSD version has. If you find, for example a slice 2 that appears to be a FreeBSD slice, then run bsdlabel as: baslabel ad1s2 and pay attention to how it is divided up into partitions in the table. Ignore all the disk identifier stuff above that. Just pay attention to the stuff below the line that says '8 partitions' where it names a partition and gives size and offset. If that gives some decent information, such as a partition 'a' with some reasonable looking size and (hopefully) an offset of 0 and maybe some other reasonable looking partitions and offsets (do not muck with partitin c), then try running fsck on the partitions you find. fsck /dev/ad1s2a for example. It should come up with some complaints, but be able to fix them. If so, create a mount point - something like: mkdir /rootfix or whatever and try to mount it mount /dev/ad1s2a /rootfix If, after the fsck, this works, cd to it and look around. Then try this for any other slices+partitions you find that claim to be FreeBSD type. If this doesn't work, then you are in for a more difficult task. jerry Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
On Friday 21 March 2008 1:39 pm, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's just a matter of grabbing data off this drive, would a live rescue CD such as Reci=overy Is Possible be of help to you? Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it into a ms windows box. Then I used a free proggy called ffsdrv which i found on sourceforge. Snipit -- It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows 2000/XP/2003. http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Managed to get all data off this way. Ezat William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in production. I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help for a wounded disk drive...
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 at 08:47 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it into a ms windows box. Then I used a free proggy called ffsdrv which i found on sourceforge. Snipit -- It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows 2000/XP/2003. http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ Managed to get all data off this way. This is just what I was looking for to mount an FBSD drive on XP. Thanks! I was able to completely transfer all data from the drive just now. _| |_| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
