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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:26, Remy Blank wrote: |
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> This is worth a try. However, I would first dump the whole card to a |
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> file, make a copy of the file, and try all recovery attempts on the |
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> copy. This way, you can always go back to the original and try something |
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> else. |
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Blast! Too late now - I've tried to recreate the partition table (see other |
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message). But this is a very sensible approach and I should have thought of |
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it at the time. Thank you very much for your advice - well worth bookmarking |
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this one! |
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> Make a copy: |
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> dd if=/dev/sda of=xd.img bs=1M |
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> Make a working copy: |
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> cp xd.img xd_work.img |
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> Re-create the partition table: |
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> fdisk -b 512 -C 1024 -H 5 -S 50 xd_work.img |
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> Enter: "n", "p", "1", "1", "1024", "t", "6", "w" |
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> (Not quite sure about the partition type (6), you might want to try |
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> other types like FAT32 (b)) |
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> Try to mount the partition: |
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> mkdir mnt |
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> mount -o ro,loop,offset=25600 xd_work.img mnt |
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> (25600 is 50 (number of sectors) * 512 (bytes per sector), that's the |
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> start of the first partition) |
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> Most of this will have to be done as root, so please be careful. |
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> Good luck! |
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> -- Remy |
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> Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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