David Busby wrote: > I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition > table. When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO > errors in dmesg output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to > dump from that drive to file on a working drive either.
You've used 'dd' with conv=noerror? If that succeeds and you still have a vague idea what the partition table looked like, you can try using the latest 'parted' on the resultant file, do help, and then do rescue begin end. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list