OT: fdisk

Robert traveling08 at cox.net
Sun Oct 3 17:00:57 UTC 2010


On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:19:36 -0500 (CDT)
Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

> >
> > Which looks a lot better. I can mount /dev/da1 and it shows 
> >  ~> 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
> >
> > But I cannot mount /dev/da1s1
> >
> >  ~> sudo mount_ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt
> > mount_ntfs: /dev/da1s1: Invalid argument
> 
> what does 'ls -l /dev/da1*' show?
> 

Robert

Just what one might expect

~> ls -l /dev/da1*
crw-rw----  1 root  operator    0, 129 Oct  2 07:46 /dev/da1
crw-rw----  1 root  operator    0,  92 Oct  2 16:43 /dev/da1s1


To all others who have answered: Thank you for all of your ideas. 

Warren, thanks for the link. I will be reading it and increasing my
understanding of NTFS.

I do not think there is anything physically wrong with the disk. I
just cannot reach the data on it. Using "photorec" I have all files
moved to a spare slice on this FreesBSD machine. It appears that there
is less than 60G of actual data on the drive. Most of it is not needed
so it will take quite awhile to sort the wanted from the unwanted.

I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use "dd" to capture 250 gigs
from the old drive? Using da1 and ad12 as the if and of will the result
be an NTFS formatted 250g drive? Will I have the same results, i.e.
able to mount ad12 but not ad12s1? Should I zero out the 250g drive
first? Can "ddrescue" do a better job?

This drive was used for a backup of of the Docs&Sets "folders" of the
XP drive. It also had music and photo files that are also on the
FreeBSD computer so they are not that critical. The Docs&Sets folders
are the most important to recover so if I can access the data, I can
burn it to DVD. 

Thanks again to all who have responded.

Robert


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