Here is my issue:
I have an old 1.6 GB hard drive that has been sitting in the basement for a while. It actually booted up with Windows 95/98 and the when I explored the hard drive it looked like data was still there.
I took out the hard drive and put it in an external hd enclosure and hooked it up to my laptop running 10.04. If I do a:
sudo fdisk -l
The drive doesn't show up. I checked in the Disk Utility and the drive is there but it says it has no partition. I'm pretty sure that it does (as I could see the data when it was still in the pc downstairs).
Any thoughts suggestions on how to get the drive to mount correctly? All I really need is to get some files off of the drive.
UPDATE:
So I'm trying out TestDisk. It appears that there is a read error on just about every cylinder that it's testing though.
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Try instructions here:
scroll down to the FAT32 and FAT16 section.
From Mussnoon -
You should run Testdisk on the drive to fix its partition table. You can install Testdisk by typing :
sudo apt-get install testdisk
Start testdisk with sudo :
sudo testdisk
And follow the Step-by-Step instructions here : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
It's pretty easy and in no time your disk will be fix and you will be able to mount the partitions.
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