The original hard drive was 400gb and the new one im installing is the 300gb...i could try and use that!
2010/1/25 Paul Roach <roa...@roachy.net> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:06 AM, javadayaz <javada...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can you please point towards an article regarding re creating the > partition > > table? > > I'd strongly recommend getting another drive of the same size or > larger and dd'ing the broken drive. Then you can work on a copy if > the drive without touching the original data. > > Working with a borked drive is dangerous in that in trying to recover > the data, it's very easy to make matters worse.... > > Get another drive before proceeding and install in the machine.....then > > sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=4k conv=noerror,sync > > (where hda in the example is the original broken disk and hdb is the > new blank disk). You can then work with a copy of the disk without > worries... > > Good luck > > Paul > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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