On 11 Feb 2008, at 15:58, Bob Goodwin wrote:
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Ok, that seems to work.
parted /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA ST380024A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 512B 32.8kB 32.3kB
Apple 2 32.8kB 61.4kB
28.7kB Macintosh 3 61.4kB
90.1kB 28.7kB Macintosh 4
90.1kB 119kB 28.7kB Macintosh
5 119kB 147kB 28.7kB
Macintosh 6 147kB 410kB
262kB Macintosh 7 410kB
672kB 262kB Macintosh 8
672kB 934kB 262kB Patch Partition
9 934kB 80.0GB 80.0GB hfs+ Untitled
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
I don't know how to interpret it yet, it appears to be a list of
partitions? So many?
The first eight partitions are system stuff from Apple, you should
mount /dev/sdb9 and get the files off it a.s.a.p.
At any rate I can see some of her image files and gthumb is happy
to display them full screen. Another interesting project rears its
head!
This augurs well for being able to dump her data files to a temporary
directory on your hard disk. You can then try repairing the disk --
drastic measures might involve erasing the disk by re-formatting it
as ext3 and using
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1
to work the whole disk, then re-partitioning to your taste (needless
to say there will not be much left on the disk after this lot, pretty
much zero in fact ;-) ). You might also use smartctl at this point. I
have done similar things with a disk which was playing up and it has
worked fine since.
Best wishes,
Ian
