From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85F6D138350 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24B37E09CB; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D29BBE09AB for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [81.153.126.158] (helo=[192.168.1.225]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1jUEug-0008ub-FG for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:32:03 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20200430093217.efprkpt4kbvir7nr@solfire> <5EAAA0AB.3050505@youngman.org.uk> <20200430103607.2xpawnms6wtqj7si@solfire> <5EAAC1E5.5060802@youngman.org.uk> <20200430131054.4qu3wlayohodrreu@nabokov.fritz.box> <20200430170452.hsv6vcgzy43mluxq@solfire> From: antlists Message-ID: <04005ef6-698f-e1de-139a-a87c8d92b151@youngman.org.uk> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:32:05 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200430170452.hsv6vcgzy43mluxq@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5e25fef1-727f-4922-9d33-3168e4adf32c X-Archives-Hash: c721903963a736356f5fe9993d122b7e On 30/04/2020 18:04, tuxic@posteo.de wrote: > I copied the first 230GB of that disk to an empty partition of my new > system and run "testdisk" on it....after the analysis it came back > with "this partition cannot be recovered" but did not sau. whether the > reason is a partition table, which is broken beyond repair, or simply > due to the incomplete image file... Just come up with another idea that will hopefully give us some clues... https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Asking_for_help#lsdrv Ignore the fact that it's the raid wiki - this tool basically delves into the drive and tries to find mbr, gpt, superblock, lvm and raid signatures, everything ... So run that and see what it tells us ... Cheers, Wol