Hardware :: Unknown Partition Table On USB Thumb Drive

Jul 29, 2010

My friend gave me a flash drive with some important files on it that one day didn't work with his windows box. Upon plugging in the thumb drive, Windows gives a "you must format this disk before it can be used" message. I tried running a data recovery program (Easeus) on it but didn't have great results- only recovered some .wav files, a few .avi files and a .exe- none of which were very important, so I figure'd I'd try to mount it in Linux and possibly see the rest of the filesystem. The thumbdrive is a 2GB Lexar JD Firefly I plugged in the thumb drive and it is picked up by the system, but I can't access it. Here is the output of lsusb

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i have FC10, and have loss my grub because a windows 7 instalation (other partition). I am trying to re-install the grub version 0.97, so i used:

FC10 DVD install + repair a system

then:

Code:

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub

but i got:

unknown partition table signature.

so i can not make any grub command:

Code:

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
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Apr 18 06:45:03 OraHost kernel: [132295.755942] sdc: unknown partition table
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I believe this has something to do with an mdadm update which was included in the release. When I configured the array, I didn't partition the disk devices, so maybe that has something to do with it. I am thinking of rebuilding the array and partitioning prior to build, but a quick fix would be referable.

And also something appears to have happened to the raid device since the update.

Prior to update, the array was /dev/md0 - now it is /dev/md/0 which is a symbolic link back to /dev/md0.

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usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
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SCSI device sdh: 732566645 4096-byte hdwr sectors (3000593 MB)
sdh: Write Protect is off

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/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sda3 ext4 /home

then I used dd to transfer data from the old drive to the new drive. Now I am unable to boot into the new drive. I tried to boot again from the live-CD but fdisk reports that the drive has no partition table. I can still mount the devices (e.g. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3) and I can see all the files. But without a partition table, I can't set one partition to be bootable. Why doesn't gparted create a partition table? it created the filesystems just fine. how do I boot into the new disk? What do I have to do to make grub handle the new disk?

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Quote:

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System was rebooted into the XP install CD.

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