From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 18:36:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD24106564A for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 18:36:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmmtao101.cox.net (fed1rmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.241.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286AE8FC12 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 18:36:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo03.cox.net ([70.169.32.75]) by fed1rmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20101002183645.VMFA4042.fed1rmmtao101.cox.net@fed1rmimpo03.cox.net> for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:36:45 -0400 Received: from asus64 ([72.220.91.10]) by fed1rmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id Ducl1f00L0DQbeo04uclM4; Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:36:45 -0400 X-VR-Score: -20.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=bpc8uEicDnqxZSslY2USwZnb9rPJRdwMtO2+C0QOm0U= c=1 sm=1 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=/nTdwXoUaSOHzX6NQnbKNQ==:17 a=szUVclnwL_haDAishg8A:9 a=lWCXbh2hBpcFkfrqKGwA:7 a=9wmRJhDQnlU2ozbR-hNzf9K-WwwA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=/nTdwXoUaSOHzX6NQnbKNQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 From: Robert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101002113640.2ab36871@asus64> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: OT: fdisk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:36:46 -0000 Greetings I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access that drive. I pulled it and attached it via USB to one of my FreeBSD machines but it will not mount. It is a 500G hard drive and I get _wild_ results just looking at it with fdisk. ~> fdisk /dev/da1s1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1s1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=60801 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=60801 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 114 (0x72),(unknown) start 218129509, size 1701990410 (831050 Meg), flag 63 beg: cyl 368/ head 111/ sector 45; end: cyl 371/ head 101/ sector 51 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 116 (0x74),(unknown) start 729050177, size 543974724 (265612 Meg), flag 73 beg: cyl 67/ head 115/ sector 32; end: cyl 299/ head 114/ sector 44 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 101 (0x65),(Novell Netware/386 3.xx) start 168653938, size 0 (0 Meg), flag 74 beg: cyl 114/ head 111/ sector 32; end: cyl 353/ head 115/ sector 52 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 0 (0000),(unused) start 2692939776, size 51635 (25 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 0; end: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 0 I tried to use "dd" and copy data to another spare drive. It appears to work but then I can no longer mount that drive. Other than taking it to a data recovery shop does anyone have any idea. I haven't told her that her data is lost yet. I may have to wait until we are drinking a bottle of wine. :-) Thanks for any suggestions. Robert