On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:03 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe that there are "horses for courses"
me too, linux discs are for computers, windows discs make good
coasters. ; )
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On Friday 18 May 2007 16:16, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
> >
> > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
[snip... lot's of good advice]
> Bottom
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive
> lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes,
> 0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid
> master boot record magic number (0
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
>
> I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
Doesn't make me wonder, as I'll explain below, there's no file system
starting at offset 0 in that image of your stick...
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
>
> I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
>
> Like most USB sticks I would assume that it is either FAT32 or FAT16.
> Given that this is what
On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I
> > > need to r
On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I need
> > to reconstruct the hex of the partition table - but don't know how to
> > do this and te
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I am getting the same errors as before:
> ==
> # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
>missing codepage or
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> You still seem to be missing the correct syntax. (note: this might not
> solve your problem, and even issuing the right command might be of no
> help, but since you asked for it, here it is).
[snip . . . ]
Thanks! Things don't always go as they
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:29, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback
> > filesystem. If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try
> >
> > mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere
> >
> > and make sure you
On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote:
> > > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
> > > running:
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
> > >
> > > But couldn't access it whatsoever.
> >
> > Oops! I could
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote:
> > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
> > running:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
> >
> > But couldn't access it whatsoever.
>
> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root!
> Right, I've got
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36, Mick wrote:
> A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought
> it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help
> with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it
> seems that Linux is also struggling to
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
> > >
> > > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my
On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:21 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
>>running:
>>
>>dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
>>
>>But couldn't access it whatsoever.
> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root!
> Rig
On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
> >
> > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
> > > drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:38 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
> >
> > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
> > > drive, but it cannot access /dev/s
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:38:44 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
> >
> > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
> > > drive, but it
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
>
> Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
> > drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can
> > do with my Gentoo to reco
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought
> it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help
> with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it
> s
On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:51, Elias Probst wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote:
> > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive,
> > but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my
> > Gentoo to recover the files on this USB?
>
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to
> work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my
> Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that
> Linux is also
Hi All,
A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to
work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my
Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that
Linux is also struggling to get to it:
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