Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:36:40 -0700 From: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: OT: fdisk Message-ID: <20101002113640.2ab36871@asus64>
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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
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