gpart -Tool for recovering data from crashed HD

[Dexter Ang]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:33:07PM +0800, Dexter Ang wrote:
> 
>>Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>
>>>I've got a HD which seems to have problems. 
>>>( I can't boot from it)
>>>
>>>I would like to know what tools are available to actually
>>>perform some kind of data recovery or something.
>>>
>>>Currently, I'm just booting into a copy of Knoppix and then mounting
>>>the HD and copying (what can be copied) off the drive to another network 
>>>location.
>>>
>>>Sometimes it works. sometimes it just hangs at scp.
>>>
>>>Pointers??
>>
>>Is the HD still detected by the BIOS? If so, maybe it's just something 
>>screwy with the partition table. I've used "gpart" before. It 
>>automatically tries to detect the partition types on your harddrive, and 
>>recreates the partition table. I've done it on a dying HD before (one 
>>that kept losing knowledge of any partition). Booted up in Slackware, 
>>ran gpart from a floppy. That restored the partition table, booted up in 
>>Windows, backuped all files needed, then after a reboot the harddrive 
>>died. I didn't have a spare HD so I had to burn the data using Windows. 
>>And nope, MS's "fdisk /mbr" didn't work there.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>dex
> 
> I can't find gpart in fedora. Where is it or how does one get it.

It doesn't come with fedora. You can google for it. Which gives the 
first result as:

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

There's a downloadable statically-compiled binary there. It also comes 
with Knoppix. Before I had Knoppix I used Slackware and the download 
from that URL. Now I just use Knoppix.

dex