Questions[rescue-disk](server)

I'm trying to clone 1TB disk with PMBR partition and bad sectors. Which has working Windows partitions on it, and is bootable via MBR.
blkid doesn't recognize partitions

/dev/sdc: PTTYPE="PMBR"

gdisk /dev/sdc

    GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.7

Caution: invalid main GPT header, but valid backup; regenerating main header
from backup!

Caution! After loading partitions, the CRC doesn't check out!
Warning: Invalid CRC on main header data; loaded backup partition table.
Warning! Main and backup partition tables differ! Use the 'c' and 'e' options
on the recovery & transformation menu to examine the two tables.

Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk!
Main header: ERROR
Backup header: OK
Main partition table: ERROR
Backup partition table: ERROR

Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: damaged

Found valid MBR and corrupt GPT. Which do you want to use? (Using the
GPT MAY permit recovery of GPT data.)
 1 - MBR
 2 - GPT
 3 - Create blank GPT

Your answer: 

I tried in gdisk with (2) (r) (b) (w) but result didn't want to write

 Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 34 blocks!
You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility.

Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by
17599083851618035976 blocks!
You will need to delete this partition or resize it in another utility.

Problem: partitions 121 and 119 overlap:
  Partition 121: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
  Partition 119: 11147454187938441805 to 15638604846186930334

Problem: partitions 121 and 120 overlap:
  Partition 121: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
  Partition 120: 3391649715396322562 to 7297187905800799496

Problem: partitions 122 and 120 overlap:
  Partition 122: 3391649715396322562 to 7297187905800799496
  Partition 120: 3391649715396322562 to 7297187905800799496

Problem: partitions 122 and 121 overlap:
  Partition 122: 3391649715396322562 to 7297187905800799496
  Partition 121: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909

Problem: partitions 123 and 119 overlap:
  Partition 123: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
  Partition 119: 11147454187938441805 to 15638604846186930334

Problem: partitions 123 and 120 overlap:
  Partition 123: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
  Partition 120: 3391649715396322562 to 7297187905800799496

Problem: partitions 123 and 121 overlap:
  Partition 123: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
  Partition 121: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909

Problem: partitions 123 and 122 overlap:
  Partition 123: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
  Partition 122: 3391649715396322562 to 7297187905800799496

Problem: partitions 124 and 119 overlap:
  Partition 124: 10336404087008029236 to 15113227714779688721
  Partition 119: 11147454187938441805 to 15638604846186930334

Problem: partitions 124 and 121 overlap:
  Partition 124: 10336404087008029236 to 15113227714779688721
  Partition 121: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909

Problem: partitions 124 and 123 overlap:
  Partition 124: 10336404087008029236 to 15113227714779688721
  Partition 123: 925735787758310161 to 13474437941687892909
Aborting write operation!
Aborting write of new partition table.

clonezilla doesn't recognize partitions I tried gparted and Rescue system partitions but it was scanning all night and nothing.
using: cfdisk /dev/sdc works fine

                                                                              Disk: /dev/sdc
                                                        Size: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
                                                                    Label: dos, identifier: 0x9f9fd106

    Device                 Boot                              Start                   End               Sectors              Size            Id Type
>>  /dev/sdc1                                                    1                206846                206846              101M            ee GPT                        
    /dev/sdc2              *                                206848             617201663             616994816            294.2G             7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sdc3                                            617201664            1916342271            1299140608            619.5G             7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sdc4                                           1916342272            1953316862              36974591             17.6G            c0 unknown
    Free space                                          1953316864            1953525167                208304            101.7M     

                                 

How can I mount partitions under fedora or PartedMagic live? Thanks

How can I get a a list of installed packages from a debian setup which is mounted to /mnt/ while using a rescue mode?

Scenario: Server crashed, only rescue mode possible. Setting up a new server, migrate data from old server to new with rsync.

But how to install all packages on the new server which were installed on the old server (yeah, rescue mode only)?

Thanks!

I accidentally deleted my LVM partition inside /dev/md1. The good thing that my linux root partition and swap inside this LVM are still mounted. I was able to copy all data to my backup HDD, and was able to do a dd copy of my LVM root partition.

Now gparted on /dev/md1 shows that all space is unlocated. If I reboot my pc I will loose ability to boot it again. Is there any way to quickly recover partition table without reinstalling system? Keep in mind that LVM still knows the partition table, I am able to read and write to that non-existent partitions.

Thanks

I'm looking for rescue or live CDs for Itanium servers, but the only bootable CDs I've found are the distros installation CDs. Mainly I want to clone the servers disks, and also check memory or disk bad blocks. I've tried with the same CDs I use on x86-64 but none of them have a version for ia64. Any recommendation?

I used ntfsclone from ubuntu to copy a bad windows hard drive to a new one using:

sudo ntfsclone --rescue -f --overwrite /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1

which produces the following:

WARNING: Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data.

There's only about 70 of these warnings. How could I determine what real files were affected using these numbers?