Hi Folks,

I have been running Ubuntu on a spare PC I have.

I thought when I discovered ddrescue that it would be somewhat of a pancea, and image anything I threw at it - I had after all heard very good things about it, I was in some respects glad to get away from windows.

While I admit to still being in my early days of Ubuntu, I have discovered that two disks I have tried to image lately do not show up under a fdisk -l, and accordingly I cant image in ddrescue.

They do show sometimes in dmesg that they have been assigned sdc or whatever, but the rule seems to be if it dont show up in fdisk -l then it cant be imaged.

Is it possible the Ubuntu rescue remix will have better luck? I dont have the drives any more so I cant test it, but hoping someone here might have had similar experience?

Cheers

-AL
PS: On these defective disks I have had excellent success with getdataback to get the files off, but of course getdata back doesnt do images.

Hi Everyone,

I have an old 2.5 ide disk from a friend that he wanted me to get the files off of as it was failing but I have put it into my usb caddy and it will not load a dev file.

Here is the dmesg output

10760.940063] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5

[10761.074707] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[10761.089694] scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

[10761.094601] usb-storage: device found at 5

[10761.094608] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

Then cycles over this

[10772.032262] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: No additional sense information

[10772.038251] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : No Sense [current]

[10772.038258] Info fld=0x0

Until I disconnect the drive

[10772.096061] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 5

[10772.096516] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.096526] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.096537] __ratelimit: 5 callbacks suppressed

[10772.096544] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.100902] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.100918] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.100929] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101000] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101008] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101013] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101054] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101062] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101067] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101105] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101112] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101116] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101134] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.

[10772.101159] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101166] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101171] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101205] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101212] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101217] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101252] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101259] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101263] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101297] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101304] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101309] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101326] Dev sdb: unable to read RDB block 0

[10772.101350] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101358] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101362] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

[10772.101399] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101406] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101467] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101475] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 24

[10772.101508] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101516] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 24

[10772.101551] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101558] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101594] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK

[10772.101601] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0

[10772.101616] unable to read partition table

[10772.101905] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

[10772.102092] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

Once I can get device file I'll use ddrecover to get an image but until then I'm stumped!

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Savvy

A friend allowed me to convert his XP box to dual-boot Jaunty. It worked except that some packages weren't fetched in the post-install restricted driver download. After using for a while, fine except no audio, I tried to reinstall Jaunty, and it aborted due to failure to create a swap partition. Thereafter nothing would boot.

Between us we tried using supergrub disk, then gparted and now rescue remix(incl testdisk). We have got to the point where all he wants is to clean the disk and reinstall XP but even that is now aborting when it gets to partition choice (it detects the partitions as they were prior to gparted claiming to have deleted them).

Surely rescue remix should enable a clean wipe?

I formatted my internal and external hard drive by mistake.

From what I've read, I need to know what type of hard drives they are in order to recover the files. When I click on Properties for the external hard drive, it says 'ext3'. But when I click on Properties for the internal hard drive, it doesn't say what type. So how do I find out?

Ok, sorry if this has been answered so far, but I couldn't find any case studies or forums threads which provided a working solution.

I was not concentrating when I was doing this. Basically, I had an ntfs partition with a windows installation plus documents and many files. I used gparted to reformat the disk to ntfs. Immediately realizing what I did I unmounted and attempted recovery.

I'm particularly interesting in recovering .doc, .docx, and .iso

Is the data lost? If not, what tool would you recommend to recover this data?

Where do I find the GPG Authentication for installing Ubuntu Rescue Remix package? Please?
I have searched here and in other places.

Thanx,

Zeddock

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i really need some advice,
i just tried to install ubuntu, it asked to use all disk and now my windows vista wont load,
i think i formatted the hard drive. is there any way to retrieve the data on the hard drive, the files, pictures and music!!

I have 2 hard drives 160GB each, the C Drive was empty and the D drive had all the data, i accidently chose D drive for ubuntu to use.
Please any advice on how to fix this??

many thanks in advance,

really woried

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Hi.
Like a lot of people here i did something very stupid, and as a result I have a hard drive with all the data intact but the partition table unreadable (gparted sees an empty disc). I am downloading now the iso. Could anybody advise me on the best way of repairing the partition table so that my partitions are visible again? Failing this i will have to recover the data but would prefer if i didn't have to.

Thanks