On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 08:37 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > Just wanted to plug testdisk[1] in case others end up in the same situation. > <--SNIP--> > > Richard > > [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Thank you for your message! I have a disk that had been used under windoze xp. A few years ago something went wrong with it and I had to buy a new one. I choose Fedora as my primary distro since that. Yesterday after reading your message I found the disk on the shelf, opened computer case and plugged it in. It's impossible to boot from it and when it's connected as slave Fedora 12 reports smart-errors and unable to mount it. So, I did: yum install testdisk and ran testdisk as root. It sees the disk: Partition table type (auto): Intel /dev/sdb: Device Configuration Overlay (DCO) present. Disk /dev/sdb - 41 GB / 38 GiB - ATA Maxtor 2F040L0 Partition table type: Intel And correctly sees it's partitioning: * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 1274 254 63 20482812 NTFS, 10487 MB / 10001 MiB L HPFS - NTFS 1275 1 1 2549 254 63 20482812 NTFS, 10487 MB / 10001 MiB L HPFS - NTFS 2550 1 1 4995 254 63 39294927 NTFS, 20 GB / 18 GiB There's a lot of read errors in the log file, but it starts the backup procedure and creates image.dd file under working system (F12). However it halts after some time with the following message: No space left for the file image. It's strange because there's sufficient space on the drive (9.3 GB in / and 43 GB in /home, all etx3). I tested it a few times and each time it hangs when image.dd is exactly of 2 GB in size (to be precise it is 2147483647). What's wrong with it? How can I restore data from the disk? Thank you! -- About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
