How to recover an integer ext3 partition from a disk with a damaged partition table ?

[Andrea Mastellone]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> Andrea Mastellone wrote, On 09/24/2008 11:12 AM:
>> Hi,
>>
> if I had less space (and no time to buy an extra USB hard drive) and 
> could translate the CHS to bytes/blocks of disk space, I would do 
> something like:
> assume 512 blocks, and HeadSector size of 7697074bytes
> bc of 7697074*6402/512 yields 96243491 which is probably completely wrong.
> (is this roughly a 55GB device?)
> 

Yes, it is about 55 GiB device. Can i proceed so  with this ?

> dd if=/dev/whole_solid_state_disk \
>    of=/path/to/spare11GB/SSD.image \
>    seek=96243491 conv=noerror bs=512
> 

Andrea

> 
> And remember, the device is already failing... you MIGHT only get one 
> more read, so take that into consideration when choosing the method for 
> getting the image.
>