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The Monday 2007-02-26 at 19:46 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote: > Hello Sandy, Daniel, Patrick, Carlos, Teruel, James, Bandi... :-) > > thank you very much for your hints. Meanwhile I have downloaded several "live > CD's and tried with them what I was able to, till now with no success. > Nothing really important has been lost, so I will not invest too much work on > that topic. > > I don't now what happened. Somehow it looks as just the whole disk is rotten. It happened to me not yet three weeks ago. I suspect the cable. > The BIOS shows it, but fdisk, gparted etc. show a 7.something GB disk, what > in fact was a 20 GB disk. It doesn't find /dev/hda1 nor /dev/hda2 and parted > says, it can't work with a partition outside of the disk... If the partition table has been trashed, then /dev/hda1, hda2 etc are useless. What I'm interested in is the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda". Does the bios shows the correct size? And you don't mention using gpart. > I was just hoping there was a tool which I can download, burn on a CD, boot > with it and save the data on a floppy without the need of knowing/thinking so > much :-) A floppy is way too small! There is dd, of course, it does that, in raw. > > (In my early computer days, on NCR systems, we had a "dump"-command and it > just printed out the raw contents of a disk in hexadecimal form, even from an > unmounted disk, if I remember correctly. Well, it was a 40 MB (yes, "MB" > not "GB"!) disk, so probably not quite the same as nowadays...) You have "hex" and similar tools. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF45ZMtTMYHG2NR9URAjDbAJ9gv1CxbsCZ6PZOv7SpV37x/fPxnQCfe3a9 +i5t5bgrna1EdTmh7H7MwcY= =ohAA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]