gpart -Tool for recovering data from crashed HD

Jay Daniels drs at pointyhats.com
Fri May 7 01:46:05 UTC 2004


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:17:04PM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:33:07PM +0800, Dexter Ang wrote:
> > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > >I've got a HD which seems to have problems. 
> > >( I can't boot from it)
> > >
> > >I would like to know what tools are available to actually
> > >perform some kind of data recovery or something.
> > >
> > >Currently, I'm just booting into a copy of Knoppix and then mounting
> > >the HD and copying (what can be copied) off the drive to another network 
> > >location.
> > >
> > >Sometimes it works. sometimes it just hangs at scp.
> > >
> > >Pointers??
> > 
> > Is the HD still detected by the BIOS? If so, maybe it's just something 
> > screwy with the partition table. I've used "gpart" before. It 
> > automatically tries to detect the partition types on your harddrive, and 
> > recreates the partition table. I've done it on a dying HD before (one 
> > that kept losing knowledge of any partition). Booted up in Slackware, 
> > ran gpart from a floppy. That restored the partition table, booted up in 
> > Windows, backuped all files needed, then after a reboot the harddrive 
> > died. I didn't have a spare HD so I had to burn the data using Windows. 
> > And nope, MS's "fdisk /mbr" didn't work there.
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > dex
> I can't find gpart in fedora. Where is it or how does one get it.

you mean gspot?  i search but i don't think she has one:)


jay





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