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Originally Posted by jggimi
- Double check your disklabel, and ensure that that the "i" partition now starts at sector 63.
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I checked it ; offset is 63.
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Originally Posted by jggimi
Ensure that mount point /usr/usb/externaldrives exists.
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It exists.
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Originally Posted by jggimi
* While you can't seem to get a simple tool like dd(1) working for you, for unexplained reasons.... if you ever did, I would love to see the output of the first sector of the NTFS partition -- the 64th sector of the drive:
# dd if=/dev/rsd0c skip=63 count=1 | hexdump -C
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Well this command returns:
Code:
# dd if=/dev/rsd0c skip=63 count=1 | hexdump -C
dd: /dev/rsd0c: Invalid argument
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000 secs (0 bytes/sec)
And i also opened an xconsole before running it and no kernel messages appeared.
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Originally Posted by jggimi
I believe that this was originally an NTFS partition, formatted under Windows (or perhaps shipped with that partition from the factory). You then reformatted it as a FAT partition from a non-Windows platform, such as Linux or BSD.
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That is true; if i can remember well i reformatted it under Ubuntu Linux.
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Originally Posted by jggimi
To enable this partition for use on a Windows platform, you would need to edit the MBR partition table and change the partition type to a valid FAT32 type such as 0x0c. You can use fdisk(8) to do this, if you are careful.
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So the type i should change it to is '0x0c' ? Well i think i will try it since i consider the data already lost after so many failed attempts.I have nothing to lose...except for the data. :P