[ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext.Partition.

[Jeff Hubbs]

Is this the thing that's cured by writing some zeroes to the drive via
dd?  It's documented in man fdisk, IIRC.

- Jeff

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:53, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Calvin nailed the first thought I had of the drive overlay program.
> The second idea is that the partition map is corrupt. tune2fs may be
> helpful there. If you can, make a dd copy of the drive to a tape.
> 
> Another reason to have a paper copy of the drive partition setup
> parameters. Which I don't have on all my drives. Hmmm...
> 
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:59, Joe Story wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.  I am downloading some drve testing software from IBM
> > now.  As far as mounting the partition, I don't think that is possible b/c
> > it is shown as just an ext partition with no logical drives inside of it.
> > 
> > 
> > Joe-
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jim Philips <jcphil at mindspring.com>
> > To: <ale at ale.org>; Joe Story <joestory at bellsouth.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext.
> > Partition.
> > 
> > 
> > > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 08:48 am, Joe Story wrote:
> > > > Hey all.  Anyone know if there is a way to recover from this.  Any info
> > > > greatly appreciated.  This machine dual boots Win98 and Slackware 8.  I
> > was
> > > > in windows and I noticed that my  D: drive (FAT32, Logical drive inside
> > ext
> > > > partition on IBM 75gig deskstar)  was showing jibberish ie, dfa___dfae!!
> > > > (random chars.)  on the label and in the filenames.  Could not open any
> > > > folders within that drive. The error message was something like "could
> > not
> > > > locate...."  Suddenly after that my machine locked up. Not surprising.
> > > > After rebooting, the EXT. partition still existed but no drives inside
> > that
> > > > were there.  I also noticed that dos's fdisk was only showing that drive
> > as
> > > > 8gig.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me what might have happened or give me some possible
> > ways
> > > > to ?rebuild? the logical drive so that I can recover the data there.
> > I'm
> > > > mostly curious as to what could have done this.  If I can't recover I
> > will
> > > > just have to start over on the 15+gigs of mp3's I had on that drive.
> > >
> > > Sounds like a corrupted hard drive. Can you mount the partition where your
> > > MP3's are located? If so, I would get them out of there as soon as
> > possible.
> > > See if IBM has a diagnostic program for this hard drive and scan it for
> > > problems. I'm almost positiver they have something like this. They have
> > one
> > > for my IBM hard drive.
> > >
> > 
> > 
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