[root at server /]# fdisk -l /dev/da0 fdisk: illegal option -- l usage: fdisk [-BIaipqstu] [-b bootcode] [-1234] [disk] fdisk -f configfile [-itv] [disk] I posted this earlier: [root at server /]# fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=9729 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=9729 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 63, size 156295377 (76316 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> -- Ryan On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Sunny wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: >> The entire disk; Should I re-try the ddrescue with the slice only? > > Does it has valid partition table? What's the output of fdisk -l > /dev/xxx, where xxx is sdx/hdx? > > If t has valid partition table, yes, dd only the partition, not the > entire drive. If there's no valid partition table, then you need to > run testdisk on the image to try to recover the partition first. > > Sunny > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100413/f04785ba/attachment.htm