From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-64105-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HoiyT-0002ZS-Dh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:37:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4HGZ1vl032644; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:35:01 GMT Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au (vscan02.westnet.com.au [203.10.1.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HGQEd9020951 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 17 May 2007 16:26:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E29211DE7D for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 18 May 2007 00:26:13 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26928-16 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 18 May 2007 00:26:13 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.55] (unknown [124.149.62.254]) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B1C11DE5C for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 18 May 2007 00:26:12 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive From: Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200705171704.23751.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070517094559.14586f21@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <200705171638.54090.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705171704.23751.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hCZpI/gWl/OKNox0vO+u" Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 02:26:16 +1000 Message-Id: <1179419176.17572.20.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 X-Archives-Salt: 2b1f36ea-6d9b-4059-876a-3d1c490885e8 X-Archives-Hash: 803f541b8d65b097c013dbe89cc864c3 --=-hCZpI/gWl/OKNox0vO+u Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 > > > > > > Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard > > > > drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can > > > > do with my Gentoo to recover the files on this USB? > > > > > > have you tried reading raw from the device like > > > > > > | dd if=3D/dev/sda of=3Dsda.image > > > > > > ? That might do the recovery. How to get it out of the image is the > > > same problem but once the backup succeeds you can plug it into a > > > windows xp box and reformat, and you will probably end up with the sa= me > > > partition structure as originally. Then you can try to read the righ= t > > > part of the image out of the image, once you get the numbers from fdi= sk > > > on the newly formatted drive, and end up with an image of sda1. From > > > there you should be able to mount sda1 and read out the data, if it > > > isn't corrupted. > > > > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by > > running: > > > > dd if=3D/dev/sda of=3D/tmp/r1 bs=3D512 > > > > But couldn't access it whatsoever. > > >=20 > Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! Right, I= 've=20 > got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it: > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Have you tried mounting with just mount -o loop /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 --=-hCZpI/gWl/OKNox0vO+u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGTIIozDi2M4U3QqIRAonFAKCPl9pk2kbm5CsGb6wST8jWG9D9/gCeJWHH BN8TaLx8GW3qtmoHSHBlndo= =AIhQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hCZpI/gWl/OKNox0vO+u-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list