Re: Lost file allocation table on USB hard drive

  On 05/13/10 14:38, james terris wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I have an Ubuntu server that I use for storing files on.
> It's a small atom machine with a USB hard drive attached to it.
> Last week I couldn't access the folder that the USB drive is mounted
> to and when I run fdisk on it I get the following message:
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
> fdisk does identify the correct size of the drive but says that there
> are no partitions on it.
>
> I've been poking around online but haven't found anything too useful yet
> so I was wondering what everyone's recommendation was.
>
> I ran the command gpart but it couldn't find any partitions.
>
> I looked into the commands rescuept and fixdisktable but I couldn't
> figure out how to install them on my system (even trying to build them
> from source).
>
> The drive powers up ok and the system detects it correctly if I turn it off/on.
>
> So, if anyone has any pointers about how to rebuild the fat table that would be great.
>
> thx,
> james
I *think* if you know the exact partitioning that was there and you 
recreate it with fdisk that the data will still be there.
I'm only 90% sure and since you will lose the data if I'm wrong, I would 
see what other people say.
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