A500 GVP HD Crash

[A4000_Mad]

Hi Chris,

I was about to point you in the direction of a great program written by thomas which saved all of my data under similar circumstances

http://aminet.net/search?query=rdbrecov

But unfortunately it says this in the readme file:-

Use RDBrecov if you lost the RDB (partitioning information) of your
harddisk.

RDBrecov searches an entire harddisk for partitions. It can handle PFS2,
PFS3, AFS and SFS partitions.

D'oh!

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What is the default file system for the Amiga?   That's what I used when setting the drive up.  Will this RDBrecov tool not work for me?

[Zac67]

Sounds like FFS. As it seems, the readme also states "Since V0.6 it also finds FFS partitions. As FFS needs the partition size for calculating the rootblock position, first all possible FFS bootblocks are stored in a table and in a second pass the rootblock positions are calculated and checked."

Worth a try.

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So it sounds like I may have formatted the disk with the wrong file system or one that is not very efficient with error recovery.  What is the best file system to use?

Chris

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So I reloaded the drive with SFS and made each partition less than 2 gigs.  Everything seems to be good.  I know this is a silly question but I have to ask, how do I verify that the new partitions are actually SFS?  No "fdisk -l".

Thanks for all the help,

Chris