[nfbcs] access hard drive

Fri Apr 2 22:37:35 UTC 2010

I think the linux tools could just resize the partition to fix it.
and yes linux can repair the filesystem with just as much reliability as a
ms tool.
the failing is not with the linux tools, but rather the knowledge of who is
using them.
Linux has no fail-safes so if you nuke it, you own all the parts.
I have repaired many disks/filesystems that commercial and ms tools said
were toast!
If you want to discuss it voice, you can call me at 419.909.0550 and I will
be happy to chat about it.
The key is more information.
at this point we are making a lot of asumptions and that can be where our
logic falls apart.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Bryan Schulz
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:19 AM
To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] access hard drive

hi,

the problem was the main drive was 500gb and the spare drive is only 250gb.
the purpose was to reduce the size so the main drive could be copied to the 
spare drive so the spare drive could be used in another tower.
i think the entire partition was resized instead of making another partition

and now it can't be accessed.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] access hard drive

> The point is that they boot off the live linux CD.  This gives them an
> environment to work in that isn't making use of their windows boot disk
>
> If they aren't a linux user, this does have a rather high learning curve.
>
> However, I'm not really sure that this solution meets the needs of
> Bryan's friend.  If I understand correctly, this friend has a
> corrupted mbr and possibly a corrupted filesystem they want to repair,
> so they can copy files from the disk.
>
> Linux can rewrite the MBR, but probably not repair the vfat table.
> My experience is that LInux's tools for repairing vfat filesystems are
> not as reliable as the ones MS provides.
>
> Bryan, can you explain further what the exact problem is?
>
> Jim
>
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 09:32:41AM -0500, Bryan Schulz wrote:
>> as most, he doesn't use linux.
>> how is that supposed to work with windows machines?
>>
>> Bryan Schulz
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Prescott"
>> <prescott at deltav.org>
>> To: "'NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] access hard drive
>>
>>
>> >use a linux rescue disk and you can do it with that.
>> >you can also copy and resize partitions with it.
>> >so you could take all data from one partition and put it on the new 
>> >drive
>> >and resize the new partition.
>> >
>> >
>> >2 choices are:
>> >grml http://www.grml.org and system rescue cd
>> >http://www.sysrescd.org
>> >the grml is probably better as if you have a hardware synthesizer it 
>> >will
>> >most likely be able to speak from boot.
>> >
>> >the best thing about these solutions is they are free!
>> >
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> >Behalf
>> >Of Bryan Schulz
>> >Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:11 AM
>> >To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>> >Subject: [nfbcs] access hard drive
>> >
>> >hi,
>> >
>> >a friend wants to know if there are programs that will recreate the mbr
>> >master boot record and fat file allocation table so files can be
>> >copied from
>> >a hard drive that has not been reformatted yet.
>> >
>> >Bryan Schulz
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