On Friday 18 May 2007 16:16, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote:
On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
[snip... lot's of good advice]
Bottom line: I
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:03 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that there are horses for courses
me too, linux discs are for computers, windows discs make good
coasters. ; )
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On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote:
Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
running:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
But couldn't access it whatsoever.
Oops! I could access it, but of
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:29, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 23:27, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
IIRC, that is not the right syntax for mounting a loopback
filesystem. If /tmp/r1 is the file containing the filesystem, try
mount -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere
and make sure you have
On Friday 18 May 2007 10:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
You still seem to be missing the correct syntax. (note: this might not
solve your problem, and even issuing the right command might be of no
help, but since you asked for it, here it is).
[snip . . . ]
Thanks! Things don't always go as they
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am getting the same errors as before:
==
# mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
missing codepage or other
On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I need
to reconstruct the hex of the partition table - but don't know how to
do this and testdisk does
On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs. It seems to me that I
need to reconstruct the hex
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote:
On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
Like most USB sticks I would assume that it is either FAT32 or FAT16.
Given that this is what I see
Hi,
On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:11:14 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
Doesn't make me wonder, as I'll explain below, there's no file system
starting at offset 0 in that image of your stick...
Like
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive
lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes,
0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid
master boot record magic number
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote:
Hi All,
A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to
work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my
Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that
Linux is also
On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:51, Elias Probst wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote:
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive,
but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my
Gentoo to recover the files on this USB?
Try
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought
it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help
with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it
seems
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can
do with my Gentoo to recover the
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:38:44 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
drive, but it cannot access
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:38 +0100, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there
On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that
On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:21 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
running:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
But couldn't access it whatsoever.
Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root!
Right, I've got it
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 +0100, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
drive,
On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36, Mick wrote:
A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought
it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help
with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it
seems that Linux is also struggling to
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:04, Mick wrote:
Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
running:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
But couldn't access it whatsoever.
Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root!
Right, I've got it on my hard
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