Re: Recovering partitions with fdisk

Hi Grant,
Thanks for helping out. I appreciate that.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:31:59 +1100, Grant wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:04:24 +0800, Rico <ras_nas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The sizes look all right but partEd doesn't display the filesystem types
for those entries and Windows displays drives letters for those
'partitions' but prompts for them to be formatted upon trying to explore
them.

Yeah sure -- listen, you run a format command, and you wipe the
partition directory clean, which then means you'll need to recover files
with scanning type tools

My intent had been to describe what I observed on Windows instead of
simply saying some generic "It doesn't work on Windows"; not meaning that
I thought I should go through with the formatting.

Am I supposed to do a makefs on those restored entries?

Not at all, one repairs the partition table and attempts to mounts
partitions READ_ONLY to check if things are okay -- swanning around in
some third party application that recommends formatting is madness.

By 3rd-party application, you mean Windows Explorer?

Because according to Acronis Director demo version, there's no
filesystem there though the type is seen as what I set through fdisk,
HPFS/NTFS and FAT32.

I don't know what that warez is,

It looks like the licensed version is reliable software from a reputable
company. But I'm trying the DIY way first. Acronis has successfully
scanned the disk and came up with the 3 partitions I am looking for. One
needs to purchase a license to be able to perform the restore though.

all you need do is attempt a read-only mount, (for example: mount
/dev/sda11 /mnt/hd) if you get no warnings then linux recognised the
partition format. If it tells you to specify a format, you made a
boo-boo, go back to fdisk and review...

I'm just concerned that I'm dealing with NTFS here, on Linux.. Still, I
could just try the mounting read-only thing though. Linux-ntfs looks good.

I have no idea what you've already done ;)

What you do is plug those numbers into fdisk and try to mount the
partitions (read only) to check if you got it right.

As I said, what I've done was to plug those numbers into fdisk, and set
the partition types/system id's accordingly.

How did you discover start and end cylinders? These numbers have zero
meaning without the other drive geometry values (CHS), what are they?
Post what `fdisk -l` says.

I'll post it along with a more detailed outline of how I got to this point.

Thanks again.
Rico.
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