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From: Ward William E PHDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Redhat-List (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Restoring Partition Information
>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.
Yeeouch :) That does not sound fun. Well, heres a my shot at helping you
out o the dog house. If the drive in question isn't too big, you could just
try using dd to grab everything from the disk and plop that into a file on
your own hd. You could then mount that file as a "disk image" via mount -t
vfat -o loop /directory/filename /mountpoint You could check to see if the
data is relatively intact within the disk image. If so, then you could
replace the old disk with a new one of the same type and size and dd the
data back onto the drive. If not, you might mount the new drive up as well
and try copying what data can be seen from the "image" to the new drive.
You'd have to format the new drive first as fat32 of course. Undoubtedly
there are a few dozen other solutions out there, and hopefully one of them
will help you out. Goof luck.
Jeff
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