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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:38 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 |
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> > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard |
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> > > drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can |
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> > > do with my Gentoo to recover the files on this USB? |
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> > have you tried reading raw from the device like |
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> > | dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.image |
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> > ? That might do the recovery. How to get it out of the image is the |
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> > same problem but once the backup succeeds you can plug it into a |
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> > windows xp box and reformat, and you will probably end up with the same |
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> > partition structure as originally. Then you can try to read the right |
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> > part of the image out of the image, once you get the numbers from fdisk |
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> > on the newly formatted drive, and end up with an image of sda1. From |
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> > there you should be able to mount sda1 and read out the data, if it |
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> > isn't corrupted. |
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> Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by running: |
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> dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 |
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> But couldn't access it whatsoever. |
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> > I also am wondering what happened to the partition table. I bet your |
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> > coworker has a security-compromised box at home (oh, runs windows? |
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> > right...) At any rate, if the data is recoverable, it may be possible |
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> > to rebuild the partition table if you can find out where the partition |
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> > started and ended. People have done it before, i've read online about |
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> > it. |
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Have you tried examining it physically? I've had a drive behave |
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similarly before, and it turned out to be an issue with one of the |
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solder joints on the crystal only having intermittent contact ( was |
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almost a dry join) - resoldering solved it and let me recover the data |
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