Please help me recover my disk CFW 3.11 & 3.12
- Thread starter IgorW
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Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
That was addressed to af123
Yes, I'll run it now. Just to clarify, should this be run in maintenance mode or just the standard telnet? Thanks
Thank you so much for your help. Here's the output.
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humax# gfdisk -l /dev/sda
GNU Fdisk 1.3.0a
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
Disk /dev/sda: 1000 GB, 1000202273280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
humax#
The out of memory error doesn't help - it means we don't know where the third partition starts.
You should be able to access your recordings by at least creating partition 2 at the right place, so:
Then create a primary partition 1:
Then the video partition, you can just press return when it asks for the sector values here:
and write the table to disk:
Now try to mount the partition:
If that is successful, your recordings will be under /mnt/hd2/
Ideally, transfer them off to somewhere else and the reformat the disk.
You should be able to access your recordings by at least creating partition 2 at the right place, so:
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humax# gfdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to sectors
Command (m for help): oThen create a primary partition 1:
Code:
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
First sector (default 0s): 63
Last sector or +size or +sizeMB or +sizeKB (default 122913314s): 2120579Then the video partition, you can just press return when it asks for the sector values here:
Code:
Command (m for help): n
Partition type
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
First sector (default 2120580s):
Last sector or +size or +sizeMB or +sizeKB (default 122913314s):and write the table to disk:
Code:
Command (m for help): w
Command (m for help): qNow try to mount the partition:
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humax# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/hd2If that is successful, your recordings will be under /mnt/hd2/
Ideally, transfer them off to somewhere else and the reformat the disk.
Thanks. After trying to write the table to disk, I get:
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Writing all changes to /dev/sda.
Error: Partition(s) 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/sda have been
written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably
because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in
use. You should reboot now before making further changes.
i Ignore
c CancelThat doesn't sound at all right to me and I wouldn't reboot until af123 has commented. Did the process go as af123 had outlined?
Up until then, yes it went as instructed.