Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive
Selim:
>> [334302.538188] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
>>
>> fdisk -l output:
>>
>> $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>> $
>>
>> (nothing was output)
>
>Have you tried running it as root? I'm not sure if it's needed but in
>case it is...
>
>You might also try cfdisk. I seem to remember that once I had a
>problem with seeing the partitions with fdisk but cfdisk worked,
>though I'm not absolutely sure.
I think it is hardware (USB-to-SATA?) failure. I had same problem few
months ago. I think arno has two options here:
1. Ether to try to restore its partition table w/ fdisk or whatever
tool - it will be quiet easy if there was single partition.
2. Try w /data recovery tools - in my experience far harder and
improper way of restoration in such a case.
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