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Boot Managers / USB boot option not working

« Last post by andfree on April 12, 2018, 09:50:28 AM »

Hi. I'm running PLOP from CD on an old Desktop. When I choose the "USB" boot option, there's only a  "LOADING EHCI DRIVER" message, and then it freezes. Nothing more. Any ideas?

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / Re: HFS+ recovery post format

« Last post by Elmar on April 11, 2018, 18:22:04 PM »

At first, I would search and extract the alternate volume header from the end of the old partition. It should already be fine, because only the first 300MB are affected.
https://www.plop.at/en/hfsprescue/find_vh.html

I fear, the extents overflow file will be destroyed.

Then run step 1 "-s1" with the disk device node (not the partition). This scans the whole disk.

Then run step 2.

Then calculate the old partition start with a reference file. See https://www.plop.at/en/hfsprescue/partition_offset.html

Then restore your files with the disk device node and the calculated offset.


Best regards
Elmar

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / Re: HFS+ recovery post format

« Last post by rtype909 on April 11, 2018, 18:04:27 PM »

hi,
yes to external
yes to single partition

low fragmentation too, i only ever dumped data on to it.

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / Re: HFS+ recovery post format

« Last post by Elmar on April 11, 2018, 17:37:49 PM »

Was there only one partition on the drive?
Is it an external drive?

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / Re: HFS+ recovery post format

« Last post by rtype909 on April 11, 2018, 16:49:10 PM »

Hello Elmar,

I assume it was 're-partitioned' because i inadvertently imaged a 300mb 'iso' image across the 2tb hdd in the one step.  I just wonder if the HFS Volume header still has the catalog intact even partially to allow some reconstruction?

thank you and kind regards

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / Re: hfsprescue resume

« Last post by Elmar on April 11, 2018, 14:31:20 PM »

Hello,

thats a good idea. It also opens the possibility to continue on any sector. Interesting for disks with hardware sector defects.

The next release will have this feature.

Best regards
Elmar

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / Re: HFS+ recovery post format

« Last post by Elmar on April 11, 2018, 14:26:27 PM »

Hello,

i formatted a HFS+ 2TB (1.2tb data) volume by mistake with 300mb of data.  I have not written to the drive since.

Do you mean, that you created a new partition with 300MB over the old one and formatted it?

Best regards
Elmar

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / HFS+ recovery post format

« Last post by rtype909 on April 10, 2018, 14:42:42 PM »

hi,
i formatted a HFS+ 2TB (1.2tb data) volume by mistake with 300mb of data.  I have not written to the drive since.
I have recovered my files (raw) but wish to see if i can recover the partition table and directory structure.  Is this even possible?

Will the 'alternate volume header' have been re-written as well ? Or is there is a prospect of recovering the  headers, catalogs with which rebuild the original directory structure?

thank you

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Various, HFS+ Rescue, Sitemap generator, other tools / hfsprescue resume

« Last post by studentism on April 10, 2018, 12:00:07 PM »

First, thank you so much for this utility.. It's sadly buried under a ton of BS apps on related Google searches, and it definitely saved my ass. I promise to donate as soon as my financial situation improves.

I hate to be that guy requesting something without any contribution, so I'll simply leave this here as a suggestion you can completely ignore. The only real issue I encountered was having to stop/restart the -s1 phase on an incredibly large volume. That was the result of a few suboptimal conditions on my part (not a typical use case), but if it's not an insane amount of work I think it'd be really helpful to be able to resume from the last block recorded in s1.log.

Regardless, you deserve a hero's reward for what you've made.

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Boot Managers / Re: Best boot method: Option rom vs PXE Rom?

« Last post by davidm71 on March 26, 2018, 03:14:39 AM »

Also having an issue with configuring the option rom I created with the GUI configuration tool in that it reports an error when I try to save the configuration.

So let me explain the steps I have taken to try to build a LAN bootable ROM file:

1. plpbtrom.exe -nodisable -vendorid 0x10ec -deviceid 0x8168 -forceINT  plp.bin plpbtrom.rom plpbt.bin
2. Qemu -option-rom plpbt.bin ( to check if it worked )
3. plpcfgbtGui.exe -> Not Work!

Assume the cfg editor is not compatible with the plpbtrom file.

Thanks