=========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== > > > > I guess that it is an issue with the partition table. > > I have 3 disks in teh same machine. > > Yesterday I turned on the machine and turn it on this morning. > > I could not boot. Then I decided to mount them in an > > external USB enclosure. They all behave the same > > Ok, I'm a bit confused here. Do you mean that you install one drive at a > time into a USB enclosure to test? Yes, on another machine I tried to recover the partition table for 1 disk. I worked, but there are plenty of issues. Disk /dev/sdd: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 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 Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdd1 * 24981075 36258704 11277630 5.4G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdd2 36258705 46508174 10249470 4.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdd3 60030976 206895103 146864128 70G 8e Linux LVM /dev/sdd4 206895104 488396799 281501696 134.2G f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdd5 206899200 290785279 83886080 40G 8e Linux LVM /dev/sdd6 317001728 405065727 88064000 42G 83 Linux As you can see this table is wrong But cannot mount /dev/sdd6 for example. Disk /dev/sdd6 - 45 GB / 41 GiB - CHS 5481 255 63 The harddisk (45 GB / 41 GiB) seems too small! (< 60 GB / 56 GiB) Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection... The following partition can't be recovered: Partition Start End Size in sectors > Linux 1889 40 8 7370 226 24 88064000 [Backup] > > > > > testdisk > > Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55 > > > > Disk /dev/sdc: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 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 > > > > I never though that I could lost 3 disks at the same time. > > I have a copy of the partition table on the disks. > > > > I am trying to run testdisk > > How? Via a rescue CD or something? I'm not familiar with testdisk but I > see it's available on a bunch of rescue CD images. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx