[NBLUG/talk] Recovery Partition ( Empty Partition

[Howard]

  I was having trouble mounting the drive under unbuntu, following the 
directions.
So I boot XP, ran chkdsk, which took 2 runs to get through.

Then I was able to get F10 to work. I'm sitting in Hard Drive 
Diagnostics right now.
It's stalled at 5%, 1st time stalled at 1% . Seems this drive is on its 
way out then.

So what would the command be to mount this drive in ubuntu if it is seen
as sda2?? I tried mount /dev/sda2 /media/sda2 -t ntfs umask=000 or 
something like that,
and kept getting prompted for syntax errors.

Thanks

Howard

On 12/16/2010 5:46 PM, Mike Rice wrote:
> have you tried [ctrl]+F11 after POST?
>
>   cdesign proponentsists: eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Howard<howardas at pacbell.net>
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc."
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> Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 12:49:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Recovery Partition ( Empty Partition
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>    No, F11 doesn't work. Another idea is there a way to then maybe
> image the partition, and see if I could then extract it??
>
> Howard
>
> On 12/14/2010 3:18 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:04:50 -0800 (PST), h.schnirman said:
>>> This isn't necessarily about linux, but Linux is being used as the
>>> repair tool. I've got an HP Pavilion Laptop that had it's OS corrupted
>>> to the point that it doesn't boot. The recovery partition type says
>>> Empty.
>>>
>>> So the Question is, Is it really empty or that HP has some proprietary
>>> file system that I can't see. The partition is about 214mb. About the
>>> size
>>> to be expected of the recovery partition. Otherwise I'll have to tell my
>>> friend that he needs to purchase DVD's from after market.
>>>
>>> HP is not making available XP Recovery disks any more, and the machine
>>> is too old to run their newer hardware hogs I imagine.
>>>
>>> So if anyone could suggest a good Open Source to for investigating pretty
>>> esoterics partition types I'd be very appreciative.
>> Hi Howard,
>>
>> Holding the F11 key during power on didn't start the automatic HP
>> recovery boot process?
>>
>> Friendly regards,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
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