[ale] Superblock recovery - Revisited

Preston Boyington preston.boyington at mindspring.com
Fri May 6 13:19:54 EDT 2005


Preston Boyington wrote:
> 
> What I thought was odd was the "Start / End" on /dev/sda2.  It looks
> like it starts after it ends.  Is this something to do with the
> partitioning scheme or something with fdisk (used fdisk on Knoppix
> 3.6)?
> 
> QTParted shows /dev/sda1 to be "unknown" type.  How is fdisk
> recognizing it as FAT32 (which is correct) if QTParted doesn't
> understand how to read the partition (which was originally made with
> QTParted)?
> 
> Any of this look odd to anyone else?
> 
>
>From: Michael B. Trausch
>
>Certainly does.  I've only seen something like that happen once, and it
>wound up having something to do with the movement of the drive from one
>system to another that had different settings on how to read the
>geography of the drive.
>
>Are you absolutely certain that the kernel is getting the correct
>geography, and in the right format (CHS, LBA, something else)?
>
>	- Mike

I've never had a problem with this drive and this kernel.  This is the same Knoppix disk I used to create the partitions and since that time I have been able to use it on virtually any Linux / Windows machine I connected the drive to.

I have had problems before with XP and the varying service packs.  The particular XP machine the drive started having problems with apparently had no service pack updates and contained over 5 Trojans and 15 other Viruses (Virii?).  I found that he downloaded a new Virus Scanner and ran the thing to clean the nastys off his machine while he had my USB drive hooked up.

The last bit I just found out yesterday after he asked to borrow my drive again...

Any ideas on how to go about correcting this problem (the USB drive, not the nitwit)?

Preston



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