HOW-TO say Open Sesame to your internal disk

[mumsoft]

Yes, unfortunately I have read that. I wouldn't want to loose my Files!
I know I could copy the files, but the Problem is that I first need to find a place for those 600GB..

Anyway, I will see what I can do myself but I just hate to reinvent the wheel!

Since you don want to loose your files (who does?) take care!
MAYBE this could work:
- backup the original MBR of this disk. I said BACKUP.
- give it a NEW partition table and define a reiserfs primary partition occupying the whole disk.
- try to mount that.
Success?
NO success? RESTORE the original MBR

This is not reinventing the wheel, but inventing it.
If you make one mistake, you will loose your files.
With the new partition table the Asus will NOT recognize it anymore.
Capice?
It is highly experimental, but, with the original MBR at hand, theoretically not much can go wrong.

Regards en de groeten uit Holland,
Marc

[robink]

Since you don want to loose your files (who does?) take care!
MAYBE this could work:
- backup the original MBR of this disk. I said BACKUP.
- give it a NEW partition table and define a reiserfs primary partition occupying the whole disk.
- try to mount that.
Success?
NO success? RESTORE the original MBR

This is not reinventing the wheel, but inventing it.
If you make one mistake, you will loose your files.
With the new partition table the Asus will NOT recognize it anymore.
Capice?
It is highly experimental, but, with the original MBR at hand, theoretically not much can go wrong.

Regards en de groeten uit Holland,
Marc

That's what I will try to do, if it doesn't work I'll find one of those file system recover tools... should be able to scan the disk for "filesystems" and their location.

Groetjes uit Bayern (Duitsland) van een hollander,
Robin