Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-29 Thread rudu
Le 28/07/2010 20:55, Aniruddha a écrit : First things first, make an image of the hard disk with dd and work on that. That way you don't have to experiment with your only available copy. Thank you Aniruddha, I will do that as soon as I can get a spare HDD. Jean Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-28 Thread Aniruddha
First things first, make an image of the hard disk with dd and work on that. That way you don't have to experiment with your only available copy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 26 iul 10, 17:22:05, Jordon Bedwell wrote: have the same problem. If you do Repair it from the Windows partition as well since Windows is far better with FAT and NTFS than any other operating system and then check again. If they're still missing post back and let us know and we'll go

Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-27 Thread rudu
Le 27/07/2010 09:10, Andrei Popescu a écrit : On Lu, 26 iul 10, 17:22:05, Jordon Bedwell wrote: have the same problem. If you do Repair it from the Windows partition as well since Windows is far better with FAT and NTFS than any other operating system and then check again. If they're still

Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-27 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 7/27/10 4:40 AM, rudu wrote: Any reference on that? I remember reading about some errors that Windows was not able to repair, but the equivalent Linux tools did. What you hear and what's true are two different things. It's Microsoft's technology, they would be better with it than anybody

Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-27 Thread rudu
Le 27/07/2010 12:22, Jordon Bedwell a écrit : On 7/27/10 4:40 AM, rudu wrote: Any reference on that? I remember reading about some errors that Windows was not able to repair, but the equivalent Linux tools did. What you hear and what's true are two different things. It's Microsoft's

External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-26 Thread rudu
Hi, A friend of mine recently experienced a loss of data on his 500G external WD drive. Quite inexplicably, some directories became empty, some file sizes became null while others stayed intact. df -h Sys. de fichiersTaille Uti. Disp. Uti% Monté sur [...] /dev/sdb1 466G 196G

Re: External USB HDD : files disappeared

2010-07-26 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 7/26/10 4:52 PM, rudu wrote: Hi, A friend of mine recently experienced a loss of data on his 500G external WD drive. Quite inexplicably, some directories became empty, some file sizes became null while others stayed intact. df -h Sys. de fichiers Taille Uti. Disp. Uti% Monté sur [...]