OT: fdisk

[Robert]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:52:21 -0700
Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:08:58 -0700, Robert <traveling08 at cox.net>
> > wrote:
> > > I have now a free 1TB drive for use. It is formatted as UFS.
> > > Should I remove formatting before I dd the 500GB drive to it? 
> > 
> > Not needed, as you're going to use it under the control of FreeBSD.
> > After formatting and mounting it, let's say as /mnt, use dd (or
> > ddrescue) to first get an 1:1 copy of the source disk.
> > 
> 
> It is being performed even as we "speak".

Update

[root at asus64] ~# dd if=/dev/da1 of=/1tb/disk500.img bs=1m
476940+1 records in
476940+1 records out
500107862016 bytes transferred in 47027.134085 secs (10634453 bytes/sec)

~ 14 hours later here is what I have.

[root at asus64] ~# ls -l /1tb
total 488625218
drwxrwxr-x  2 root  operator           512 Jan 19  2010 .snap
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     500107862016 Oct  5 01:07 disk500.img
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^

[root at asus64] ~# mdconfig -a -t vnode -u 12 -f /1tb/disk500.img
[root at asus64] ~# ls -l /dev/md*
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 129 Oct  4 06:43 /dev/md10
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 130 Oct  4 06:43 /dev/md10s1
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 131 Oct  5 05:55 /dev/md12
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 133 Oct  5 05:55 /dev/md12s1
crw-------  1 root  wheel       0,  66 Oct  1 14:43 /dev/mdctl
[root at asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12s1 /mnt
mount_ntfs: /dev/md12s1: Invalid argument
[root at asus64] ~# mount_ntfs /dev/md12 /mnt
[root at asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt
total 70044
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      2560 Dec 31  1600 $AttrDef
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         0 Oct  1 09:09 $BadClus
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   4194304 Dec 31  1600 $Bitmap
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      8192 Oct  1 09:09 $Boot
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         0 Oct  1 09:09 $Extend
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  67108864 Oct  1 09:09 $LogFile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      4096 Oct  1 09:09 $MFTMirr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         0 Dec 31  1600 $Secure
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    131072 Oct  1 09:09 $UpCase
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         0 Oct  1 09:09 $Volume
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     45124 Aug 18  2001 NTDETECT.COM
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         0 Oct  1 17:29 System Volume
Information 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       193 Oct  1 09:12 boot.ini
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    222368 Aug 18  2001 ntldr
[root at asus64] ~# umount /mnt
[root at asus64] ~# mount /dev/md12s1 /mnt
[root at asus64] ~# ls -l /mnt
total 0
[root at asus64] ~# df -h
Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/label/rootfs    989M    523M    387M    57%    /
devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/label/home      9.7G    2.0G    6.9G    22%    /home
/dev/label/slice2     56G     53G   -1.4G   103%    /slice2
/dev/label/slice3     56G    4.0K     52G     0%    /slice3
/dev/label/slice4     56G     39G     13G    76%    /slice4
/dev/label/spare      20G    6.0K     18G     0%    /spare
/dev/label/tmp       484M     22M    423M     5%    /tmp
/dev/label/usr        20G    7.5G     11G    40%    /usr
/dev/label/var       989M    158M    752M    17%    /var
/dev/label/500ext    451G    153G    262G    37%    /500ext
/dev/label/1tb       902G    466G    364G    56%    /1tb
/dev/ad12s1d         226G     59G    149G    28%    /250extra
/dev/md12s1          451G     32G    383G     8%    /mnt
                              ^^^

Everything is exactly the same as when I tried only 60GB. I am now
going to zero the 1TB drive and dd the 500GB drive to it. 
dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/ad6 bs=1m
I will then try windows chkdsk on the 1TB drive. 

Thanks to everyone who has added input. If I can get this working I
will summarize what it took to solve this puzzle.

Henry wrote:

And still the wife doesn't suspect?

Of course she knows that the computer died and that I am in the process
of recovering all of her data. I re-installed XP Pro on another
computer and moved what data I did save onto it. She is happy that she
can check email, balance her check book and play on Facebook. :-)

We will be drinking wine tonight.

To be continued.

Robert