Re: Emergency - partition table gone
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:11:20AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Leo Spalteholz (leo@thewoodpecker.ca) wrote:
> > Quoting Christoph Claus <chr-debuser@lux.dnsalias.net>:
> > > Hi Leo,
> > >
> > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any
> > > > system up right now..
> > >
> > > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
> > >
> > > You can boot from boot-floppy, your debian-CD, ...
>
> > Or the Knoppix cd!! That thing dominates! I just booted from that, got a
> > nice KDE3 desktop, internet works to download gpart.. Can even listen to a
> > few tunes while my hard drive gets (hopefully) unf*cked.
> >
> > Much nicer than any boot floppy.
>
> With the possible exception that the Knoppix disk won't fit in the
> sleeve of your Palm Pilot like the LNX-BBC does.
>
> That said, Knoppix is indeed cool.
>
>
> For the original poster or anyone else reading: this is a damned good
> reason to keep track of your original partition table.
>
> I've written a script which does this, as well as extracting other
> useful system information. Park the output on a printout, floppy, or
> your website (well away from the partition you're planning to damage).
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info
>
> The 'si' package is similar, though it doesn't do a good job of
> capturing partition information, IMO.
>
> Peace.
Well all the rescue disks didn't help any. Gpart scanned for 4 hours
and spit out a bunch of read errors along the way then came up with no
partitions at all. Partition Magic was confused, same with Spin Rite.
And so I checked it with the ibm drive fitness test and guess what? Its
completely toast. Couldn't even get past the first sector.
I have no idea how I managed to trigger such massive corruption but
apparently I did somehow.
No more ibm for me. Thats the second one I've had to send back in a
year.
GRRRR.. I should have joined that lawsuit :)
Cheers,
Leo
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