Restore sanity to sata drive?
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6FZ29)
For most of it's life, this drive
Code:dec@Ebony:~/Downloads$gdisk -l /dev/sdd
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdd: 1953525164 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Model: MQ04ABF100
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 3DAA5F00-10B8-4319-B987-98575296E2D6
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525130
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1953525130 931.5 GiB 8300knew it's capacity was 593.1G. The 931.5G is the result of an unfortunate dd which overwrote the capacity, when it was only supposed to overwrite the information. The actual size is 593.1G.
Is there any way of rescuing that so that the capacity makes sense? I wanted to use it for storage but that could get very messy if I let M$ near it...
Code:dec@Ebony:~/Downloads$gdisk -l /dev/sdd
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdd: 1953525164 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Model: MQ04ABF100
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 3DAA5F00-10B8-4319-B987-98575296E2D6
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525130
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1953525130 931.5 GiB 8300knew it's capacity was 593.1G. The 931.5G is the result of an unfortunate dd which overwrote the capacity, when it was only supposed to overwrite the information. The actual size is 593.1G.
Is there any way of rescuing that so that the capacity makes sense? I wanted to use it for storage but that could get very messy if I let M$ near it...