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 DOS disklabel with disk identifier > 0x4759c362. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to > write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be > recoverable. > > Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by > w(rite) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x4759c362 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > Command (m for help): q > > > I think to recover it w/ this algorithm: > > . repartition it w/ the same numbers of start/end of partitions; > > . try to recover the FSs using super block. > > 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 it, here, I can try to calculate > the exact number from the iso size but I do not know what the formula > is: iso_bytes -> cylinder numbers) and another > - the rest of HDD. > > Thanks for Your time. > > # apt-get install testdisk
testdisk will fix the problem for you - parted can (if needed) list your superblocks and allow you to recover (do enable testdisk logging). Cheers -- "But. Bill. Malls. Are. Good. Malls allow us to shop three-hundred and sixty-five days of the year at seventy-two degrees. That must be good. We are happy consumers!" — Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7d6596.2040...@gmail.com
