Replying to myself followed by a 'duck and cover' maneuver...Jeff Vian wrote:
Speaking of fogged memories, there exists a utility than can recover partition tables. I THINK it will get rid of the evil crap deposited by the likes of Max-Blast and calculate a partition table that will allow the partitions to be mounted by Fedora or Windows. I have an idle drive in another box with stuff dating back to Win3.1 that I thought was lost forever until I found the program.On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 08:26 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
Jeff Vian wrote:
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:54 +0000, Nigel Wade wrote:
mconsidine@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: The hardware brower recognizes this as
Device Start End Size(MB) Type /dev/hdd /hdd1 1 1460 11453 fat32 1 1460 11453 Free space /hdd2 1461 7296 45779 No filesystem 7297 7298 10 Free space
Sorry for creating any confusion.
The drive has data on it that I want to move over to the FC3 system already installed. The data is in a Windows filesystem structure and I don't want to have to put it into another system, boot it, hook it up to the LAN, etc. I just want to get the existing FC3 system to recognize it so that I can pull the large files off that I need. Once that is accomplished, repartitioning it using and ext2 or ext3 filesystem would be perfectly fine.
Imagine the situation as this : you've got a perfectly well- running FC3 installation. Now you need more diskspace. Someone hands you a harddisk that had Win98 and it's filestructure on it. The disk was formatted (apparently) using EZ-Drive. You are welcome to reformat the disk, but only after copying a number of files over to the FC3 installation.
That's as clear as I can make the situation.
TIA, Matt
According to installations instructions I found for EZ-Drive, you cannot use a EZ-Drive formatted disk with anything but Windows. From the partition table you showed earlier that would seem to be the case. /dev/hdd1 shows as FAT32 and may be ok, but the rest of the partition table doesn't make a lot of sense.
What do you get if you run 'fdisk -l /dev/hdd' from a command line?
Now you are tickling some long buried memories.
Is EZ-Drive one of the disk compression tool that were popular some years ago? If so, it _will_ only work in Winblows and the only option I know of is to put it in a windows machine and use the LAN to move the files.
I have not used those tools since drives of 6GB and larger came available, but I know they had the driver for the compression on the boot sector so it will work with Winblows, but not on other OSes. The actual data was in a compressed file, not written to a filesystem.
This is a good answer. It isn't really a compression program but a translation program to work with larger drives than the bios or OS would handle. I also found that EZ based drives may not work on newer motherboards as they are detected properly by the bios.
Now you are getting back to even more fogged memory. :-) I dimly remember a time when drives were larger than the BIOS could recognize and the drivers needed to map them for BIOS to handle. Have not used a machine with that old a BIOS for some time though.
I now remember this software and found this link that will explain that what you say is the only way.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/translation.html
Good point, and a handy reference for those times when needed.
Instead of spending all this time to get around the problem, put the drive in an old computer and transfer the files.
I did see that there was a kernel patch some time ago that would allow drives with overlays to work. Search google for an answer.
-- Robin Laing
I'll keep trying to remember the program's name but I'm sure that one of you youngsters will think of it 'way before I do.
The name of the GPL program I mentioned earlier is TESTDISK
You can read instructions and download at http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
Good luck!
