Unable to delete 4+Gg from external hard drive
I have a WD My Passport 320 GB external hard drive which I formated, using gparted on a live cd to ext4. Hardy could not read ext3 so I reformated it to ext3, then copied my home directory using "rsync arvu /home". When I went into the external hard drive to look at the file,I could not see it. I went back to gparted and could not access the 4+GB. How do I get these back, and why can't I access the file?
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> sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for john: [sudo] password for john: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x02cc02cb Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 7872 63231808+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 19294 19457 1317330 5 Extended /dev/sda3 7873 19293 91739182+ 83 Linux /dev/sda5 19294 19457 1317298+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdb: 319.3 GB, 319370035200 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38827 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x02f2d98f Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 38827 311877846 83 Linux |
Did you try to mount your /dev/sdb1 manually and see if the data is still there?
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt cd /mnt ; ls -l |
Maybe, if it is not about mounting...
If you have access to one, you could use a Windows installation to re-format the drive to a Windows file format, then use Windows to delete the Windows partition. Then try again, perhaps with a new partitioning live-cd, if you did not use one, such as PartedMagic. The same partitioning live-cd might be better at seeing the HDD. Was there anything on the HDD that would correspond to U3 on a USB flash? U3 on a flash should require a removal program that runs on Windows and is resistant to formatting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 I am assuming that WD, like so many firms, integrates itself more and more with Windows, and thereby automatically excludes any alternative. |
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