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I've had a disaster on my home network server; the partition table on the disk containing / has become corrupted, and testdisk has not enabled me to recover the table. If anyone can help with this I should be grateful. However, that is not what I am writing about. I've installed a substitute box - and HP MicroServer - which by a miracle has CentOS-5.6 installed on it. Now I'm wondering what is the best way to inst...

...d some package that I can not remember now. Well, I was perusing my YumInfo.lst.05, for general info, and I discovered this (potential) little gem. Thought I would pass it on and make it "more googleable" by adding a few keywords at the end of this. Here's the info summary. Name : testdisk Arch : i386 Version: 6.3 Release: 1.el4.kb Size : 480 k Repo : kbs-CentOS-Extras Summary: Tool to check and undelete partition Description: Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS,...

Hi, Somehow[TM] an installation of 4.11 to ad0s3 managed to wipe out my existing disklabel for 7.0 on ad0s4. I now need to recover the disklabel to get my system to boot! There were three labels - ad0s4a: UFS, exact size unknown. Is it possible to infer this from the UFS partition size? I can mount this already, as I simply wrote an 'a' label of maximum size to the disklabel - ad0s4b:

Hi gang I just did a really stupid thing... I did fdisk and removed the ext3 partition on my 500GB external USB drive, thinking I was working on a usb stick instead. ugh. then I did 'mkdosfs' on it. ugh ugh. Before messing with it any more at all, what good ideas can you all suggest for trying to get my data back? Please don't tell me it's all gone (though I"m afraid it

Hi, I get this error when i try to start clvm (debian lenny) : This is a clvm version with openais # /etc/init.d/clvm restart Deactivating VG ::. Stopping Cluster LVM Daemon: clvm. Starting Cluster LVM Daemon: clvmCLVMD[86475770]: Mar 8 11:25:27 CLVMD started CLVMD[86475770]: Mar 8 11:25:27 Our local node id is -1062730132 CLVMD[86475770]: Mar 8 11:25:27 Add_internal_client, fd = 7

Hi, Thanks for your reply. The file system type is xfs. And I found xfsdump/xfsrestore can undo the remove. I use dd to copy the partition as one image file. How do I mount the image as read-only device? Then I can try to recover the deleted files/directory anytime. Thanks! Regards Andrew At 2020-09-16 20:36:44, "Jonathan Billings" <billings at negate.org> wrote:

...utility hivexregedit > by a member of the ntfs-3g-devel newsgroup. > > I have a quick question about this util. > > I have a failed HD of Windows 7, and I want to reinstall Win 7 > on a new drive using the same COA key, which I do not have > saved anywhere. > > I used testdisk to back up the unmountable win7 install partition. > Testdisk copied all the files that it could to my linux HD. > > Question: > > How do I use the utility to show the COA key? If the key is contained in the Windows Registry, then hivexregedit should be able to display it (you mig...

Yes, I rm'ed the wrong directory. The disk has not been written to since, now mounted ro. Is it possible to recover the files without doing forensics on the whole partition? I know the UID and path. XFS is supposed to be pretty amazing, can I get it to do this? Thanks, Dave

...he partition as one image file. How do I mount the image >> as read-only device? Then I can try to recover the deleted files/directory >> anytime. > >Mount the image with the option '-o ro' as read-only. > >Depending on the kind of data you removed you could use 'testdisk' or >'photorec' to recover. Make sure to only use a copied image to test. Thanks for your advice. I will try the tools. I also found the article about how to create and mount image. https://midnightprogrammer.net/post/create-mount-and-unmount-img-files-in-ubuntu/ The article sa...

Western Digital Diagnostic Utilities problems... PROBLEM: Western Digital Diagnostic DOS based utility does not work with the latest ISOLinux (2.11). BACKGROUND: I utilize ISOLinux and memdisk at work to load various DOS diagnostic utilities from various floppy images. Here is my ISOLinux Configuration file (isolinux.cfg) ==========START======== default 0 display bootmsg.txt prompt 1 F1

...ormat) I immediately, hard-restart my computer. After a run level 1 restart, I discovered that it was already formatted: only "lost and found" was there. I haven't mount it or check it because I don't want to corrupt more the FS. In the forums some guy recommends to remake it with testdisk taking the same values for the inode backup table. That's the only hope it seems I have. I would like to know if there's a standard procedure to follow in this case. I've installed Windows in order to run easyrecovery 6.1 and I could recover about 15% of my family photos, but anything e...

I was trying to setup dsl (damn small linux) to boot off a usb drive. I found my BIOS wasn't booting from it when using a USB-HDD mode so I found a page for using SYSLINUX to set it up in USB-ZIP mode (http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php). I made a mistake and (doing exactly what the page warned against not doing) used the mkdiskimage command on the wrong drive (a 230Gb NTFS external

Hi, The title says it all. One of my clients showed me a 120 GB hard drive that his daughter accidentally formatted, according to him. I booted the first CD I had at hand - a Slackware 11.0 install CD - and launched cdfdisk /dev/hda. cfdisk informed me that there was even no partition table. So much for reformatting. cfdisk only shows me 120 GB of free space. Any way to retrive data on this

Something seems to be wrong with my file systems, and I want to fsck everything. But I cannot. The setup consists of 2 hds, carrying 3 raid1 (ext3) file systems (boot, /, swap). OS is up-to-date CentOS 5. So I boot from CentOS 5.3 dvd in rescue mode, do not mount the file systems, and try to run fsck -y /dev/md0 fsck -y /dev/md1 fsck -y /dev/md2 For each try I get an error message:

I don't know whether testdisk would be helpful in this case or not but your options are limited, might give it a try. ________________________________ From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of H <agents at meddatainc.com> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 6:40 AM To: CentOS mailing list <centos at cent...

I have been having some problems with hardware RAID 1 on the motherboard that I am running CentOS 7 on. After a BIOS upgrade of the system, I lost the RAID 1 setup and was no longer able to boot the system. Testdisk revealed that the partition tables had been damaged and because I had earlier saved information from fdisk, I was able to recreate the partitions. However, booting into the BIOS and recreating/synchronizing the RAID from one of the disks (took around 20 hours for 256 GB disks), I again lost the abi...

I just removed a bunch of Personal stuff I should not have. Is there anyway to undelete??? Jerry

On October 1, 2020 12:03:34 PM EDT, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote: >On 9/30/20 9:11 AM, H wrote: >> On 09/30/2020 12:03 PM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> Since you have taken the disk apart it will now be useless as >within the >>>> enclosure there could have been a vacuum or an inert gas. >>> From what I know gas filled disks

...ved. >> >> None of the blocks seem to work - all of them have invalid magic. > > Verify that the partition table still appears to be correct. If it > is pointing to the wrong starting location, none of the super blocks > will appear in the expected places. You might see if /testdisk/can > find any intact super blocks. > > Consider using a hex editor to look at some of the super blocks. > They should contain the same data. The data that actually appears > there might give some clue as to what happened. > > As a last ditch recovery effort, run mke2fs/mke3fs...

...;> None of the blocks seem to work - all of them have invalid magic. >> >> Verify that the partition table still appears to be correct. If it >> is pointing to the wrong starting location, none of the super blocks >> will appear in the expected places. You might see if /testdisk/can >> find any intact super blocks. >> >> Consider using a hex editor to look at some of the super blocks. >> They should contain the same data. The data that actually appears >> there might give some clue as to what happened. >> >> As a last ditch reco...