Guys, I need help. Last Friday, one of my wife's hard drives went
down in her machine. The drive is defective, but I can still detect
that it's there. I need to get the information off the drive, or
at least what is salvageable, as she hasn't made a backup in months.
This seems like a natural for Linux; I've taken her drive, and inserted
it into my machine as hdb. However, the partition information is wiped.
The drive was partitioned as FAT32; I'm aware that there are techniques
that could be used (for example, I could look at the raw disk and
locate text files) but none of the techniques seem to be enough. The
good news is that if I can rebuild the partition information, I should
be able to at least PARTIALLY access the drive; better is that the entire
disk is one partition, so I don't have to worry much about the partition
start and end points. The bad is that she is blaming me (it wasn't
my fault the drive went bad... but this was an old drive that I didn't
trust anymore, so she is blaming me for her lost work, since I put it
in her machine).
One tool that I've heard of is fixdisktable (strangely, after being sick
the last few days and having >400 messages on the list waiting for me,
there was a message to someone else about fixdisktable as the first
message). Are there any others? All I >think< I need to do is correct
the partition table and mount the drive, then copy the data to my working
HD. I should be able to restore one or the other of the two FATs if I
can only partition the disk non-destructively. Any ideas? I'd like to
be out of the doghouse here, and actually be in good graces until at
least I recover from being sick...
Thanks in advance!
Bill Ward
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