Re: Rescue'ing partition.

[Rico]

Thanks Hakon. I tried out what you suggested:

--- Håkon Løvdal <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Rico <address@hidden>:
> > Hello Everyone.
> > I've been bitten.
..
> > For sure the FAT32 partition lay between 20000 and 49999 but if I
> > start at 20000, rescue finds nothing. 35000 as start is more
> > promising but parted says that it's found a hfs partition. I've never 
> > created any such thing, for sure.

> Could you try to run the program find_drive_table part of
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/utils/disk-management/printpar-1.1.3.zip
> and report the result? (The dos directory contains a precompiled
> (static) binary in case of compilation problems)

find_drive_table_part only says "strong drive table match at cylinder 0"
 
> It thus probably will report too many (false) matches, but it will be
> a starting point for finding where the different partitions start.
> It would probably be good to supplement with corresponding output
> from programs searching for file system information on the disk

gpart-0.1 had this to say:

[ (i)  Partition 2 is too big; the whole disk is 120MB
  (ii) Partition 3 is supposed to be primary but overlaps onto 2 ?
       For sure, partition 2 is supposed to take the rest of the disk ]

=====================================================================
WARNING: partition (extended DOS, LBA) ends beyond disk end.
Number of inconsistencies found: 2.

Primary partition (1)
Type: 012(0x0C) (DOS or Windows 95, with 32 bit FAT, LBA)
size: 20002 Mb  #s(40965687)     s(63 - 40965749)
chs : (0/1/1) - (1023/254/63)d   (0/1/1) - (2549/254/63)r

Primary partition (2)
Type: 015(0x0F) (Extended DOS, with 32 bit FAT, LBA)
size: 112800 Mb  #s(231014700)   s(40965750 - 271980449)
chs : (1023/254/63) - (1023/254/63)d   (2550/0/1) - (16929/254/63)r

Primary partition (3)
Type: 012(0x0C) (DOS or Windows 95, with 32 bit FAT, LBA)
size: 27799 Mb  #s(56934297)     s(184313808 - 241248104)
chs : (1023/254/63) - (1023/254/63)d   (11473/1/1) - (15016/254/63)r

Primary partition (4)  --   unused.
=====================================================================
 
> A printout of the current disk would from printpar also be nice
> (preferably both "table" and "chart", i.e. "printpar --format=chart
> /dev/hda").

                        Disk /dev/hde (CHS=15017/255/63)
                        

                       +------------------------------+
                     0 |             hde1             |  20003 Mb
                  2549 |                              |
     + - - - - - - - - +------------------------------+
     .            2550 |                              |
     .                 |          freespace           |  29996 Mb
     .            6373 |                              |
     .                 +------------------------------+
     .            6374 |             hde5             |  20003 Mb
     .            8923 |                              |
  h d e 2              +------------------------------+
     .            8924 |             hde6             |  19995 Mb
     .           11472 |                              |
     .                 +------------------------------+
     .           11473 |                              |
     .                 |             hde7             |  27800 Mb
     .           15016 |                              |
     + - - - - - - - - +------------------------------+
====================================================================

I would appreciate some help as to how I can go about fixing the
inconsistencies. Could they be what's confusing parted's 'rescue" ?

Thanks.

Rico.


                
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