From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Problem: lost first 5% of the harddisk Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:08:35 +0400 Message-ID: <20020806090835.A18078@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Huber Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:15:35PM +0200, Michael Huber wrote: > while i changed my harddisk to another IDE-controller i lost > the first 2 gb of them and all partition and file system information too. > the first 5 % where "initialized" with zeroes and could not be recovered. > is there any possibility to get out the filestructure from the remaining > harddisk (about 10gb). harddisksize = 40gb User errors and hardware problems are dealt with based on http://www.namesys.com/support.html terms. > the format used was reiserfs format version 3.5 with hash function r5 Actually since reiserfs usually stores metadata at the beginning of the disk, the chances of recovering all of the info are very low. Most probably all of the metadata is gone and without the metadata it is kind of hard to restore real data. Bye, Oleg