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On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:44:11PM +0000, Randolph Maaßen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. for |
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> some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying on |
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> sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during recovery |
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> its diskpart must have deleted the information about the 10th partition on |
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> the disk, containing my main Gentoo system. Recovery failed, but |
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> sysrescuecd still works :) |
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> Now I'm concerned about the rescueing of the partition on the SSD, is it |
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> the same way as on HDDs and are the same memory-parts of the SSD used? Or |
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> is the partiton gone forever? And when I recreate a partition, will the PV |
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> with the data still be there and readable? |
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You could try Testdisk[1]. It may help. The data on a SSD is not |
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necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using |
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the same memory cells as the old one. Even if it is, you'd lose any |
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information about directories or files (names, dates, accessrights and |
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so on). |
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You should definitly try to minimize writes (ideally there would be |
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none) since they can corrupt data. For a HDD I'd advise to create a copy |
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using dd but from my understanding of SSD technology it's not |
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guaranteed to copy the right (now unused marked) blocks. |
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If you can't recover the old partition information I'd say you lost your |
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data unless you are willing (and there's no guarantees either) to pay |
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substantial amounts of money to specialised services (substantial as in |
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most likely >> 1000 EUR). |
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WKR |
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Hinnerk |
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[1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk |
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