[arch-general] USB S-ATA Adapter

[Mark Lee]

On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 15:16 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen at web.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > my Notebook is broken and so i buy a Adapter that i can take my Data
> > from the Harddisk.
> >
> > siefke ~ $  lsusb
> > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:9665 ALi Corp. Gateway Webcam
> > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 174c:5106 ASMedia Technology Inc. Transcend StoreJet 25M3
> >
> > siefke ~ $  ls /dev | grep sd
> > sda
> > sda1
> > sda2
> > sdb
> >
> >
> 
> This is usually the output when you have no, or in your case likely, a
> broken partition table. I did play around with partition table
> restoration tools in the past, but I don't remember what tools I was
> using back then. Look into packages.archlinux.org, the AUR for more
> tools, an anyway good place to start would probably be a tool called
> "gpart".
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i

Salutations!

Are you sure the disk is running an mbr partitioning table; if it's gpt
you'll want to use something like sgdisk (from gptfdisk package).

I suggest backing up your disk with some disk backup software, or
running

dd if=/dev/sdb of=<path to where you want hdd img to be>.img

Regards,
Mark
-- 
Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com>
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