Hello, Thank, THis is the result of gpart (no -f) My problem is to guess where was the extended partition. In addition there was a swap partition is sdd5 Begin scan... Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(13mb), offset(6696mb) Possible extended partition at offset(10106mb) Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(12197mb), offset(12197mb) Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(500mb), offset(28811mb) Possible partition(Linux LVM2 physical volume), size(71711mb), offset(29312mb) Possible partition(Linux LVM2 physical volume), size(40960mb), offset(101025mb) Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(43000mb), offset(154786mb) End scan. Checking partitions... * Warning: more than 4 primary partitions: 6. Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary Partition(Linux LVM physical volume): primary Partition(Linux LVM physical volume): invalid primary Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary Ok. Guessed primary partition table: Primary partition(1) type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) size: 13mb #s(28261) s(13714360-13742620) chs: (853/173/17)-(855/111/53)d (853/173/17)-(855/111/53)r Primary partition(2) type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) size: 12197mb #s(24981011) s(24981074-49962084) chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (1554/254/63)-(3109/253/61)r Primary partition(3) type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) size: 500mb #s(1024000) s(59004928-60028927) chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (3672/226/11)-(3736/160/8)r Primary partition(4) type: 142(0x8E)(Linux LVM physical volume) size: 71711mb #s(146864128) s(60030976-206895103) chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (3736/192/41)-(12878/159/17)r * HPFS - NTFS 1555 0 1 2256 254 63 11277630 P HPFS - NTFS 2257 0 1 2894 254 63 10249470 D Linux Swap 2895 1 1 3672 254 63 12498507 >D Linux 3672 226 11 3736 160 8 1024000 [Boot1] P Linux LVM 3736 192 41 12878 159 17 146864128 L Linux LVM 12878 224 19 18100 139 23 83886080 L Linux 19732 113 30 25214 44 46 88064000 [Backup] I cannot make the partition table coherent. =========================================================================== 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 =========================================================================== > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 at 8:33 PM > From: "Samuel Sieb" <samuel@xxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: /dev/loop > > On 07/14/2017 04:22 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I just changed the size of the > > first partition and I added a ext4 partition. > > Did you unmount the drive before doing these changes? gparted won't let > you modify a partition that is mounted. You say you changed the size of > the first partition, was there more than 1? > > > Thus, I try to read the key from another computer and gparted did not > > like (fdisk was giving wrong partitions). Thus, I had to entirely > > repartition the stick. > > Were you using gparted or fdisk or both? So the USB drive had a mangled > partition table as well? That would be 4 drives messed up then. > > > Anyway, I started to investigate the issues with the PC which could > > not boot. And I arrived at the point that the partition tables of the > > 3 HD were mess up. > > I could kind of understand one disk getting messed up if you picked the > wrong disk, but I have no idea how all of them would be. > > > Now, I am making the link. > > Can this stick have a virus which may have mess up the partition tables. > > Extremely unlikely since you didn't actually run anything from it. > > > Please, note that one of the HD probably still had a XP OS bootable. > > I did not use it for a very long time. > > That should not be relevant other than you should see a FAT32 partition > in the table. > > This has been a very long email thread, so I might have dropped some > info, but are you using a live image right now for investigating this? > Have you tried looking at these hard drives using a different computer? > > I would recommend that you try a program called "gpart" to try to find > the partitions. If the first try doesn't come up with a working layout, > you can add the "-f" parameter to make it do a full scan of the disk > instead of skipping when it thinks it found a valid filesystem. > _______________________________________________ > 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
