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Thanks for the dd command. I haven't really used it much. I tried Norton
Ghost 9 but it wouldn't install on Win2K Server...<br>
A guy from work told me about this to try as well:<br>
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At 03:51 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Do NOT write anything to the
drive until you have created a diagnostic<br>
backup of the the whole disc, so that you can get back to where you
are<br>
now, if you goof something up. That's especially important if you
have<br>
no other backup.<br><br>
One way to do get a diagnostic copy is this:<br><br>
dd if=/dev/hdf of=some-file-somewhere.image<br><br>
If you have media problems, that might not succeed, and you'll need
to<br>
use the options that force dd to continue in spite of errors, but<br>
usually the backup is useless when you have media errors. Also,
the<br>
image file must be on a filesystem that supports large files.<br><br>
Do you get anything from the drive while in Windows? Windows XP
is<br>
actually quite good at recovering corruptions in FAT and NTFS. I
would<br>
try CHKDSK F: /R /F, where F is the actual drive-letter.<br><br>
I'd also want to see what Computer Management/Disk... has to say
about<br>
it.<br><br>
parted is great at guessing in destroyed partitions.<br><br>
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 20:49 -0600, Richard Knechtel wrote:<br>
> I finished installing CentOS 4.4 and suddenly I can't get to my<br>
> primary windows data drive, neither in Linux nor in windows. <br>
> <br>
> The drive is a 40 gig quantum fireball - it is/was formatter
with<br>
> FAT32 as one partition. <br>
> <br>
> Anyone, anyone have an idea how to recover this????? PLEASE!<br>
> <br>
> Here is the specifics of what I was able to find so far - any
other<br>
> suggestions are welcome.<br>
> <br>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdf1 /windows/E<br>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf1,<br>
> or too many mounted file systems<br>
> <br>
> from dmesg:<br>
> hdf: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0, ATA DISK drive<br>
> .........<br>
> hdf: max request size: 128KiB<br>
> hdf: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1902KiB Cache,
CHS=65535/16/63,<br>
> UDMA(66)<br>
> hdf: cache flushes not supported<br>
> hdf: hdf1<br>
> .....<br>
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
> .....<br>
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
> FAT: invalid media value (0x01)<br>
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf.<br>
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
> <br>
> >From fdisk:<br>
> fdisk -l /dev/hdf<br>
> <br>
> Disk /dev/hdf: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes<br>
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders<br>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
> <br>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
> /dev/hdf1 * 1 4866 39086113+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)<br>
> <br>
> >From fsck:<br>
> fsck.vfat /dev/hdf<br>
> dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN<br>
> Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 191.<br>
> <br>
> fsck /dev/hdf1 <br>
> OR <br>
> fsck.vfat -r /dev/hdf1<br>
> fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)<br>
> dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN<br>
> Cluster size is zero.<br>
> <br>
> fsck.vfat -r -t /dev/hdf1<br>
> dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN<br>
> Cluster size is zero.<br>
> <br>
> Please help!<br>
> Thanks<br>
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