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RPi - Xbian - SD card repair? Recovery?

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  • 19-03-2014 10:32pm
    #1
    hooplah
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭


    HI folks,

    I've spent the last couple of weeks gettind my pi set up nicely - deluge and sickbeard working well together and all the rest.

    Yesterday while changing power adaptors I seem to have messed up the SD card. The pi no longer boots up properly.

    I used fsck to try and repair the card. However it still shows a bad sector.

    Looking at the card in a file manager many things seem ok. There are 3 partitions - swop, xbian-boot and xbian-beta.

    I would like to try and recover all my settings if possible.

    Using dd I copied the card to my desktop.

    If I install xbian onto the card again and then copy the existing xbian-beta partition would that do the trick?


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    #2
    excollier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭excollier


    I've lost count of the number of cards/os I have corrupted by brown - outs/ blackouts and accidentally unplugging power from my Pi....the only way is to re-install., and the only contingency is to keep two cards set up identically, it will happen again, so a quick swap out can be made then re-flash the corrupted card ready for next time.


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    hooplah
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭hooplah


    Yeah I have set things up again - annoyingly I haven't yet got deluge and sickbeard playing as well together as last time. Once I get that sorted I'll back up the card as you suggest.


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