On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Hiisi <saippua5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 08:37 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Just wanted to plug testdisk[1] in case others end up in the same situation. >> > <--SNIP--> >> >> Richard >> >> [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > > Thank you for your message! I have a disk that had been used under > windoze xp. A few years ago something went wrong with it and I had to > buy a new one. I choose Fedora as my primary distro since that. > Yesterday after reading your message I found the disk on the shelf, > opened computer case and plugged it in. It's impossible to boot from it > and when it's connected as slave Fedora 12 reports smart-errors and > unable to mount it. So, I did: > yum install testdisk > and ran testdisk as root. It sees the disk: > Partition table type (auto): Intel > /dev/sdb: Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) present. > Disk /dev/sdb - 41 GB / 38 GiB - ATA Maxtor 2F040L0 > Partition table type: Intel > And correctly sees it's partitioning: > * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 1274 254 63 20482812 > NTFS, 10487 MB / 10001 MiB > L HPFS - NTFS 1275 1 1 2549 254 63 20482812 > NTFS, 10487 MB / 10001 MiB > L HPFS - NTFS 2550 1 1 4995 254 63 39294927 > NTFS, 20 GB / 18 GiB > > There's a lot of read errors in the log file, but it starts the backup > procedure and creates image.dd file under working system (F12). However > it halts after some time with the following message: > No space left for the file image. > It's strange because there's sufficient space on the drive (9.3 GB in / > and 43 GB in /home, all etx3). I tested it a few times and each time it > hangs when image.dd is exactly of 2 GB in size (to be precise it is > 2147483647). > What's wrong with it? How can I restore data from the disk? > Thank you! > -- If you have disk errors ddrescue is your friend. http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue Or you could try testdisk's sister photorec to just recover documents. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
