[NTLUG:Discuss] Data recovery - help

Wayne Walker wwalker at solid-constructs.com
Mon Jan 24 11:45:42 CST 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:59:44AM -0800, Fred wrote:
> Setup - 320GB IDE in USB to IDE enclosure, EXT3 format.
> 
> Now system sees it as "hfsplus", which I think is a fallback if 
> it doesn't see an actual file system.

This is usually when a disk is accessed as /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1

Run 

fdisk -l /dev/sdb    (or sdc ... )

also 

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null count=1024 bs=1048576

That will see if you can read 1 GB at the start of the disk.

Any idea what happened between when it could be seen and now?

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Wayne Walker
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