Re: To create partitions from the 0-sector (was Partitions recovering on empty HDD)

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/09/11 16:24, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > How I can create first partition starting w/ 0-sector and not w/ 2048? I don't believe it's possible. Assuming that you don't want to boot from that device (0x7C00 will be copied from another block device) then where are you going

To create partitions from the 0-sector (was Partitions recovering on empty HDD)

2011-09-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. How I can create first partition starting w/ 0-sector and not w/ 2048? fdisk does not. testdisk - i did not find such an option (but may You know?). gpart - just hangs w/ message 'Scan began...' Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

2011-09-24 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Actually, I did not interpret its output like that: > > # testdisk /list /dev/sdb Testdisk is simply amazing. Try to read this pages: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Data_Recovery_Examples h

Re: Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

2011-09-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Scott: >> My question is is there a tool/way that can gather info from the disk >> where are those start/end s of partitions - as I of course do not >> remember its numbers? But I remember the first was about 4.1 GB >> (being made w/ dd to put a bootable iso to

Re: Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

2011-09-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/09/11 14:21, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > I've got my partitions lost on a disk that works through SATA-USB > controller - and think it is the culprit. > > # fdisk /dev/sdb > Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or > OSF disklabel Building a new

Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

2011-09-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I've got my partitions lost on a disk that works through SATA-USB controller - and think it is the culprit. # fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4759c362. Chang