I’m attempting to recover some data from an old 60GB IDE 2.5″ drive from an old Windows laptop.
diskutil list gives
/dev/disk5 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: *60.0 GB disk5
fdisk is able to get some more information, which is giving my hopes up that this is recoverable:
sudo fdisk /dev/disk5
Disk: /dev/disk5 geometry: 7296/255/63 [117210240 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: 07 0 1 1 - 1023 254 63 [ 63 - 100486512] HPFS/QNX/AUX
2: 0F 1023 0 1 - 1023 254 63 [ 100486575 - 16723665] Extended LBA
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
Signature: 0x0
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
I’ve tried reading out the byte-data to get any hints of the filesystems:
sudo dd if=/dev/disk5 count=5 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C giving first block:
00000000 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 50 07 50 1f fc be 1b 7c |3.м.|P.P..||
00000010 bf 1b 06 50 57 b9 e5 01 f3 a4 cb bd be 07 b1 04 |..PW��..|
00000020 38 6e 00 7c 09 75 13 83 c5 10 e2 f4 cd 18 8b f5 |8n.|.u..���.|
00000030 83 c6 10 49 74 19 38 2c 74 f6 a0 b5 07 b4 07 8b |.�It.8,t...|
00000040 f0 ac 3c 00 74 fc bb 07 00 b4 0e cd 10 eb f2 88 |�.t...��.|
00000050 4e 10 e8 46 00 73 2a fe 46 10 80 7e 04 0b 74 0b |N.�.s*F..~..t.|
00000060 80 7e 04 0c 74 05 a0 b6 07 75 d2 80 46 02 06 83 |.~..t..u�F...|
00000070 46 08 06 83 56 0a 00 e8 21 00 73 05 a0 b6 07 eb |F...V..�.s..�
00000080 bc 81 3e fe 7d 55 aa 74 0b 80 7e 10 00 74 c8 a0 |.>}Ut..~..tȠ|
00000090 b7 07 eb a9 8b fc 1e 57 8b f5 cb bf 05 00 8a 56 |.�.W.˿...V|
000000a0 00 b4 08 cd 13 72 23 8a c1 24 3f 98 8a de 8a fc |..�r#.$?..�|
000000b0 43 f7 e3 8b d1 86 d6 b1 06 d2 ee 42 f7 e2 39 56 |C��ֱ.�B�V|
000000c0 0a 77 23 72 05 39 46 08 73 1c b8 01 02 bb 00 7c |.w#r.9F.s....||
000000d0 8b 4e 02 8b 56 00 cd 13 73 51 4f 74 4e 32 e4 8a |.N..V.�sQOtN2�|
000000e0 56 00 cd 13 eb e4 8a 56 00 60 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd |V.��.V.`UA�
000000f0 13 72 36 81 fb 55 aa 75 30 f6 c1 01 74 2b 61 60 |.r6.Uu0.t+a`|
00000100 6a 00 6a 00 ff 76 0a ff 76 08 6a 00 68 00 7c 6a |j.j.v.v.j.h.|j|
00000110 01 6a 10 b4 42 8b f4 cd 13 61 61 73 0e 4f 74 0b |.j.B.�.aas.Ot.|
00000120 32 e4 8a 56 00 cd 13 eb d6 61 f9 c3 55 67 79 6c |2�V.��a�gyl|
00000130 64 69 67 20 70 61 72 74 69 73 6a 6f 6e 73 74 61 |dig partisjonsta|
00000140 62 65 6c 6c 00 46 65 69 6c 20 75 6e 64 65 72 20 |bell.Feil under |
00000150 6c 61 73 74 69 6e 67 20 61 76 20 6f 70 65 72 61 |lasting av opera|
00000160 74 69 76 73 79 73 74 65 6d 00 4d 61 6e 67 6c 65 |tivsystem.Mangle|
00000170 6e 64 65 20 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 76 73 79 73 74 |nde operativsyst|
00000180 65 6d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |em..............|
00000190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
The original OS was installed in Norwegian. The last piece of the text is roughly translated to
“??valid partition table. Error during loading of OS. Missing OS”
Last block:
00000310 00 0a 0d 45 72 72 20 35 3a 20 45 72 72 6f 72 20 |...Err 5: Error |
00000320 66 69 6e 64 69 6e 67 20 56 46 4c 4f 50 50 59 2e |finding VFLOPPY.|
00000330 53 59 53 00 0a 0d 45 72 72 20 36 3a 20 45 72 72 |SYS...Err 6: Err|
00000340 6f 72 20 72 65 61 64 69 6e 67 20 56 46 4c 4f 50 |or reading VFLOP|
00000350 50 59 2e 53 59 53 00 0a 0d 45 72 72 20 37 3a 20 |PY.SYS...Err 7: |
00000360 45 72 72 6f 72 20 72 65 61 64 69 6e 67 20 64 69 |Error reading di|
00000370 73 6b 00 0a 0d 45 72 72 20 38 3a 20 46 61 6b 65 |sk...Err 8: Fake|
00000380 20 46 6c 6f 70 70 79 20 64 72 69 76 65 72 20 6e | Floppy driver n|
00000390 6f 74 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 00 0a 0d 45 72 72 20 39 |ot found...Err 9|
000003a0 3a 20 56 46 4c 4f 50 50 59 2e 53 59 53 20 63 6f |: VFLOPPY.SYS co|
000003b0 72 72 75 70 74 00 00 00 00 00 90 cc 90 06 50 b8 |rrupt......�.P|
000003c0 40 00 8e c0 67 26 a0 17 00 00 00 24 01 58 07 0f |@..g&....$.X..|
Also tried getting some info with gpt:
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk5
gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/disk5': Input/output error
Any ideas on how to move forward? I’m not too familiar with the macOS cli tools for disks (coming from Linux), and not familiar with HFPS and LBA.