Re: [MiNT] Need help to resurrect a Falcon + CT60

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

I once compiled Tesdisk on the Milan. It runs but doesn't recognise
the Atari partitions. It would probably need some changes to allow
for that and it's out of my pay grade.

Peter



On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:53:14 , Jean-Luc CECCOLI <jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
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> I didn't know. Hence the error messages it returned to me the first 2 or 3
> times I tried...
> Well... Windows introduces very bad habits... I'm trying to migrate to Linu
> x, but I am at the very beginning...
> I often have to use sudo, but it usually is in situations I fully understan
> d what I have to do and what will happen.
> If I had known about 1 and 2, and took some more time to evaluate the dange
> r, well... what is done is done...
> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = trouble...
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> Testdisk found the deleted partition which I undeleted by switching it from
>  D to L (it's the 3rd logical partition), then I copied the backup table wh
> ich was reported as OK on to the normal one that was reported as bad.
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> After reboot, the system has begun to check the disk and correcting errors.
>  I hope it will do it correctly.
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> If not, well, I can go and buy lots of kleenex boxes...
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> When all is finished, I try to retrieve my Falcon disk once more, then I co
> me back and report.
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> Thanks for helping,
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> J.-Luc
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> > Message du 20/07/15 20:20
> > De : "Miro Kropá?ek"
> > A : "Jean-Luc CECCOLI"
> > Copie à : "Thorsten Otto" , "mint@lists.fishpool.fi"
> > Objet : Re: [MiNT] Need help to resurrect a Falcon + CT60
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> Jean-Luc,
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> you made several wrong assumptions:
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> dd doesn't work on directories -- it works on handles, devices, files but n
> ot directories ... and it copies devices as whole (as an image), not file b
> y file
> you can't access windows disk/directories like /dev/sda7/ ... first you hav
> e to mount the device/partition (/dev/sda7) somewhere so the kernel knows i
> ts filesystem and structure
> sudo really means "superuser operation", i.e. something you definitely shou
> ldn't do as a normal (inexperienced) user ... it's not like windows uac whi
> ch everyones just confirms without thinking
> you thought you'd be careful when typing the name of the disk with your pre
> cious data as you say
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> So you see, you tried something incredibly dangerous without proper advice/
> confirmation, that was really asking for trouble :-( Fingers crossed for yo
> ur recovery attempt, though.
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI  wrote:
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> > Yes, but $home refers to a place on the live usb dist, which I couldn't f
> ind afterwards. Or so I guess.
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> > Though I didn't write it in my previous post, I did try sudo dd if=/dev
> /sde of=/dev/sda7/Atari/recup.img conv=swab, but got an error message t
> oo.
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> > I think I didn't do it the right way... maybe ought I have replaced /dev/
> sda7 by something like /meida/jean-luc/ ?
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> > Testdisk has almost finished running, then I can see if I can retrieve my
>  (precious) data or if I go and hang... then I try again with the Falcon di
> sk.
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> > Thx,
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> > J.-Luc
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> > Message du 20/07/15 14:37
> > > De : "Miro Kropá?ek"
> > > A : "Jean-Luc CECCOLI"
> > > Copie à : "Thorsten Otto" , "mint@lists.fishpool.fi"
> > > Objet : Re: [MiNT] Need help to resurrect a Falcon + CT60
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI  wrote:
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> I typed sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/sda7/Atari/ conv=swab, but only g
> ot a message telling no such file or directory.
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> > > You got it nearly right -- you should have typed something like "sudo d
> d if=/dev/sde of=$HOME/atari.img conv=swab", i.e. write it to a file.
>  /dev/sda7/Atari doesn't make sense -- sda7 is a partition, you can create
> directories on a filesystem only.
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> Always know what are you doing with tools like dd else you may end up with
> huge data losses!
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