In case anyone has the same problem as me in the future:
I managed to fix the problem using dd.
After examining the disks, it appeared that the Windows initialization only overwrote the MBR and left the rest of the GPT intact. Luckily in disks that use GPT, the MBR doesn't contain anything useful or ...
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- 24 Mar 2012, 05:22
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
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- 23 Mar 2012, 02:48
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
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Re: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Even after manually adding the partition I still received the "write_sun_part" error.
What should I do?
What should I do?
- 19 Mar 2012, 15:06
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
- Replies: 5
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Re: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Okay, that's good news that it can properly detect them.
As additional information, these disks are part of a RAIDZ configuration, with the whole disk being used by ZFS. Quick search finds the following partition:
2 P Whole disk 0 0 1 121601 80 63 1953525168
I tried using the write command, but ...
As additional information, these disks are part of a RAIDZ configuration, with the whole disk being used by ZFS. Quick search finds the following partition:
2 P Whole disk 0 0 1 121601 80 63 1953525168
I tried using the write command, but ...
- 15 Mar 2012, 01:54
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10228
Virtual Solaris ZFS raw disks
Hi
I'm running a Solaris 11 VM (using Vmware Workstation) on a Win7 host. It looks like I may have accidentally "initialized" my ZFS disks in Windows (which were being accessed as raw drives from the solaris VM). Now, in Solaris the disks simply report "cannot open" and format cannot see the ...
I'm running a Solaris 11 VM (using Vmware Workstation) on a Win7 host. It looks like I may have accidentally "initialized" my ZFS disks in Windows (which were being accessed as raw drives from the solaris VM). Now, in Solaris the disks simply report "cannot open" and format cannot see the ...