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 3D1A8138334 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7957DE0B28; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (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 F2016E0964 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id wBJN2W3w023624 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:02:34 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <15309912.c872to7dZ8@dell_xps> <5138848.JoqxQPOfia@dell_xps> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:02:32 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 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: <5138848.JoqxQPOfia@dell_xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 476c5427-58d7-4c64-a6e9-39051bae3309 X-Archives-Hash: dd0ca6a820108f4c52598ff8e0d8e830 On 12/19/2018 03:16 PM, Mick wrote: > Grant, you're spot on! /me looks around wondering what he did and if he needs to run and hide. > Symbol: EFI_PARTITION [=n] Oops. That will certainly mess with you. > I was under the impression I had it enabled, but clearly I hadn't on > this PC; which has a legacy BIOS with an MBR disk and which I used for > troubleshooting the faulty drive after I removed it from the laptop. > Lesson learned. ;-) I've learned the hard way to "trust /but/ *verify*" things. Even things that I think I've done. -- Grant. . . . unix || die