Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, arno: >But I can't even operate on the disk with fdisk: ># fdisk /dev/sdb >fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdb: No medium found > >Note that my data is only backup, so I don't care losing them when >fixing my hard drive. Then it's really looks like adapter (USB-SATA

Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread arno renevier
Thanks both for your replies. Dans linux.debian.user, vous avez écrit : > Selim: >>Have you tried running it as root? I'm not sure if it's needed but in >>case it is... it's the same result running as root. I think fdisk -l does not need being run as root. >>You might also try cfdisk. I seem

Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Selim: >> [334302.538188] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk >> >> fdisk -l output: >> >> $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> $ >> >> (nothing was output) > >Have you tried running it as root? I'm not sure if it's needed but in >case it is... > >You might also try cfdisk. I seem to remember t

Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
arno renevier, 8.11.2011: > Hi, > I have a hard drive which does not work any more. It's a scsi hard drive over > usb. I don't remember the numbers of partitions it had, but at least one which > was crypted with cryptsetup. > > Currently, the drive looks correctly recognized by the system, and it

partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-08 Thread arno renevier
Hi, I have a hard drive which does not work any more. It's a scsi hard drive over usb. I don't remember the numbers of partitions it had, but at least one which was crypted with cryptsetup. Currently, the drive looks correctly recognized by the system, and it appears correctly in /dev/sdb. But it