Partition error

[hsearson]

Is there anyway to recover a partition on a 200 ICP? The system boots up to...

Disk Configuration Started.
Creating block device for controller  0 drive 0... done.
Creating CBIO device for controller  0 drive 0... done.
Attaching to partition table for 4 partitions on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating Cache Layer for partition 0 (/back1) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating Cache Layer for partition 1 (/back2) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating Cache Layer for partition 2 (/back3) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating Dos FS device for partition 0 (/back1) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating Dos FS device for partition 1 (/back2) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating Dos FS device for partition 2 (/back3) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Opening partition 0(/back1) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Opening partition 1(/back2) on controller 0 drive 0... done.
Opening partition 2(/back3) on controller 0 drive 0...

And after a while it will error out and continue, then it shows that the VMAIL partition is unreadable.  There has to be a way to wipe that partition clean and reload the software onto it using the flash card with an upgrade. We basically want to recover the DB off of it.  Tempted to put the hd into my computer, install Ubuntu, and see what I can read the partitions.

[v2win]

On a 3300 you can read the partitions on a windows box not sure about a 200

[hsearson]

The hard drive part number is 50004151. I removed the jumper so it will act as a slave drive on the same ribbon as my cdrom.  I am able to see all 4 partitions, /sysro    /db   /no label (issue partition and /spare.

Using a product called "Recover My Files v4" to try and recover the partition but it seems to be coming up with "LostFile_EXE_#####.exe"

If this doesnt work i am thinking of deleting that partition and doing a flash upgrade to repair it, they will loost all vmail but i can then backup the database at least.

[hsearson]

I ended the scan early but the program did show me what it had recovered so far. It was definitely the vm partition, it listed the vox files and others. So I am going to leave it to it's scan. If this does work then I can boot this system up on a spare controller (do some sys id magic) and do a full backup. If the sys id is an issue I'll go to the customer site and boot the system up and do a full back up and replace the hd, and do a restore.

[Chakara]

  Cool - let us know how it pans out....

-Chak