USB unformatted, or just royally screwed up.

[dalinux_n00bie]

I accidentally started a tread in the network zone, so i'm moving it over to the hardware sections, where it is suppoed to be.

Here is the output of fdisk -l.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 8019 MB, 8019509248 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb4               1        2192    16777216    0  Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(2191, 23, 32)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb4: 17.1 GB, 17179869184 bytes
247 heads, 62 sectors/track, 2191 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15314 * 512 = 7840768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb4p4               1        2192    16777216    0  Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

In windowz, it says i need to reformat it because it is unformatted. This is the output in linux. How can i fix this so i can get my data off of it?

[b2bwild]

If you have not done anything to partition table after that.
Just try changing id of the partition

# sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

Press 't'
Select partiton number,
type code '83', If partition was linux partition
for FAT16 '6' for NTFS '7'

Then try mounting that partiton..

I dont it will work or not, you can always change hex code back to normal. good luck!

[Rubberman]

Please tell us about what OS the drive was running on - Linux or Windoze or other? It is apparent that the partition table is munged, but you might be able to mount it. Please provide requested information so we can best advise you.

[dalinux_n00bie]

I did some things with testdisk, and I accidently screwed it up even more... So I just formated the thing.

[Rubberman]

I did some things with testdisk, and I accidently screwed it up even more... So I just formated the thing.

That usually works. "When in doubt, wipe it out!"

[dalinux_n00bie]

well it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have some data on it that i would have rather kept.... Like some emulator games, some finals, some homework that the blasted TA lost and can't grade and i don't have anymore because my flashy went caput.... you know, little things like that.

[Rubberman]

Know what you mean. I had a drive go flooie on me recently, and lost a bunch of stuff I can't get back. Nothing terribly important, or it would have been on my RAID, but irritating none the less.