Andrea Mastellone wrote, On 09/24/2008 11:12 AM:
Hi,
I have a broken solid state disk, in facts badblocks has found about a
hundred of damaged blocks. The most shortcoming is that I have lost the
partition table too, and I suspect that some bad blocks are in relation
with the partition table data since testdisk can not write the recovered
partition table to the disk. Now, I need to rescue a 10 GB ext3
partition (that is the last one on device).
So, I would like to use dd (or dd_rescue) to physically transfer the
partition in a file on an ext3 USB disk, and then mount the file as an
ext3 partition (like an iso file by means of loopback device, is it
possible ? how ?).
Since I am poor experienced with the CHS and LBA notations, someone can
me confirm this: testdisk signals that the partition begins at 6403, 1
,1 and ends at 7798, 254, 63 in CHS notation. Since the disk has 255
heads and 63 sectors, the corrispective LBA addresses would be 102864258
and 125290810, isn't it ?
And, what of these data can I pass to dd (or dd_rescue) in order to
transfer the partition ?
Or can you suggest a better way to rescue the partition ?
Thanks in advance,
Andrea
If I were in your situation and had enough GB on a spare disk to hold the
whole SSD, I would do something like the following:
dd if=/dev/whole_solid_state_disk \
of=/path/to/spareGB/SSD.image \
conv=noerror bs=512
And then I MIGHT try some tricks to find the ext3 super blocks of the image,
and/or dd about the last 10GB out of the image as a second image to do
e2fsck's and loop mounting on.
if I had less space (and no time to buy an extra USB hard drive) and could
translate the CHS to bytes/blocks of disk space, I would do something like:
assume 512 blocks, and HeadSector size of 7697074bytes
bc of 7697074*6402/512 yields 96243491 which is probably completely wrong.
(is this roughly a 55GB device?)
dd if=/dev/whole_solid_state_disk \
of=/path/to/spare11GB/SSD.image \
seek=96243491 conv=noerror bs=512
And remember, the device is already failing... you MIGHT only get one more
read, so take that into consideration when choosing the method for getting the
image.
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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