Partition offline

After creating a WSCF ( file share witness as a quorum configuration) on Windows Server 2012R2 in order to create an AlwaysOn Availability Group we end up with a partition offline.
We have a VM with two partitions hosted on two different controllers:
C: hosted on ide; fixed size (system)
D: hosted on SCSI; fixed size
And another VM with
C: hosted on ide; dynamic (system)
D: hosted on SCSI; fixed size
After creating the failover the D: partition on the first VM was offline. Some workarounds?

I think we are going to need a little clarification on your problem description.
First, are you trying to cluster two VMs and having issues with that cluster? If VMs, are these VMs on a Hyper-V Failover Cluster or are they on stand alone Hyper-V hosts?
You state you are using a file share witness, but then you say you have VMs with two partitions on different controllers. Since partitions occur on a single disk, and you can't create a disk under the control of two different controllers, I will assume
that you meant either disks or volumes.
Since the one volume, D:, is defined on SCSI within the VM, are you attempting to share this between the two VM nodes? Is the D: volume a shared VHDX file or is an iSCSI target LUN?
I have more questions, but answering these will be a good start.
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Best approach to do Range partitioning on Huge tables.

Hi All,
I am working on 11gR2 oracle 3node RAC database. below are the db details.
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Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
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NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production
in my environment we have 10 big transaction (10 billion rows) tables and it is growing bigger and bigger. Now the management is planning to do a range partition based on created_dt partition key column.
We tested this partitioning startegy with few million record in other environment with below steps.
1. CREATE TABLE TRANSACTION_N
PARTITION BY RANGE ("CREATED_DT")
( PARTITION DATA1 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2012-08-01 00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ) TABLESPACE &&TXN_TAB_PART1,
PARTITIONDATA2 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2012-09-01 00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ) TABLESPACE &&TXN_TAB_PART2,
PARTITION DATA3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2012-10-01 00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ) TABLESPACE &&TXN_TAB_PART3
as (select * from TRANSACTION where 1=2);
2. exchange partion for data move to new partition table from old one.
ALTER TABLE TRANSACTION_N
EXCHANGE PARTITION DATA1
WITH TABLE TRANSACTION
WITHOUT VALIDATION;
3. create required indexes (took almost 3.5 hrs with parallel 16).
4. Rename the table names and drop the old tables.
this took around 8 hrs for one table which has 70 millions of records, then for billions of records it will take more than 8 hrs. But the problem is we get only 2 to 3 hrs of down time in production to implement these change for all tables.
Can you please suggest the best approach i can do, to copy that much big data from existing table to the newly created partitioned table and create required indexes.
Thanks,
Hari

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in my environment we have 10 big transaction (10 billion rows) tables and it is growing bigger and bigger. Now the management is planning to do a range partition based on created_dt partition key column.
We tested this partitioning startegy with few million record in other environment with below steps.
1. CREATE TABLE TRANSACTION_N
PARTITION BY RANGE ("CREATED_DT")
( PARTITION DATA1 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2012-08-01 00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ) TABLESPACE &&TXN_TAB_PART1,
PARTITIONDATA2 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2012-09-01 00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ) TABLESPACE &&TXN_TAB_PART2,
PARTITION DATA3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2012-10-01 00:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') ) TABLESPACE &&TXN_TAB_PART3
as (select * from TRANSACTION where 1=2);
2. exchange partion for data move to new partition table from old one.
ALTER TABLE TRANSACTION_N
EXCHANGE PARTITION DATA1
WITH TABLE TRANSACTION
WITHOUT VALIDATION;
3. create required indexes (took almost 3.5 hrs with parallel 16).
4. Rename the table names and drop the old tables.
this took around 8 hrs for one table which has 70 millions of records, then for billions of records it will take more than 8 hrs. But the problem is we get only 2 to 3 hrs of down time in production to implement these change for all tables.
Can you please suggest the best approach i can do, to copy that much big data from existing table to the newly created partitioned table and create required indexes.
>
Sorry to tell you but that test and partitioning strategy is essentially useless and won't work for you entire table anyway. One reasone is that if you use the WITHOUT VALIDATION clause you must ensure that the data being exchanged actually belongs to the partition you are putting it in. If it doesn't you won't be able to reenable or rebuild any primary key or unique constraints that exist on the table.
See Exchanging Partitions in the VLDB and Partitioning doc
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18283_01/server.112/e16541/part_admin002.htm#i1107555
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When you specify WITHOUT VALIDATION for the exchange partition operation, this is normally a fast operation because it involves only data dictionary updates. However, if the table or partitioned table involved in the exchange operation has a primary key or unique constraint enabled, then the exchange operation is performed as if WITH VALIDATION were specified to maintain the integrity of the constraints.
If you specify WITHOUT VALIDATION, then you must ensure that the data to be exchanged belongs in the partition you exchange.
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Comments below are limited to working with ONE table only.
ISSUE #1 - ALL data will have to be moved regardless of the approach used. This should be obvious since your current data is all in one segment but each partition of a partitioned table requires its own segment. So the nut of partitioning is splitting the existing data into multiple segments almost as if you were splitting it up and inserting it into multiple tables, one table for each partition.
ISSUE#2 - You likely cannot move that much data in the 2 to 3 hours window that you have available for down time even if all you had to do was copy the existing datafiles.
ISSUE#3 - Even if you can avoid issue #2 you likely cannot rebuild ALL of the required indexes in whatever remains of the outage windows after moving the data itself.
ISSUE#4 - Unless you have conducted full volume performance testing in another environment prior to doing this in production you are taking on a tremendous amount of risk.
ISSUE#5 - Unless you have fully documented the current, actual execution plans for your most critical queries in your existing system you will have great difficulty overcoming issue #4 since you won't have the requisite plan baseline to know if the new partitioning and indexing strategies are giving you the equivalent, or better, performance.
ISSUE#6 - Things can, and will, go wrong and cause delays no matter which approach you take.
So assuming you plan to take care of issues #4 and #5 you will probably have three viable alternatives:
1. use DBMS_REDEFINITION to do the partitioning on-line. See the Oracle docs and this example from oracle-base for more info.
Redefining Tables Online - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/tables007.htm
Partitioning an Existing Table using DBMS_REDEFINITION
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/partitioning-an-existing-table.php
2. do the partitioning offline and hope that you don't exceed your outage window. Recover by continuing to use the existing table.
3. do the partitioning offline but remove the oldest data to minimize the amount of data that has to be worked with.
You should review all of the tables to see if you can remove older data from the current system. If you can you could use online redefinition that ignores older data. Then afterwards you can extract this old data from the old table for archiving.
If the amount of old data is substantial you can extract the new data to a new partitioned table in parallel and not deal with the old data at all.

Best way to change partition key on existing table

Hi,
Using Oracle 11.20.3 on AIX.
We have a table about 800 million rows and 120gb in size.
Want to try copies oif this table to evalaute different partitiong strategies.
What is the quickest way to do this?
Would have liked say datapump table 1 tro disk and datapumo import the data to new table but do the tables need to be of the same format.
Thanks

>
Using Oracle 11.20.3 on AIX.
We have a table about 800 million rows and 120gb in size.
Want to try copies oif this table to evalaute different partitiong strategies.
What is the quickest way to do this?
Would have liked say datapump table 1 tro disk and datapumo import the data to new table but do the tables need to be of the same format.
>
First your subject asks a different question that the text you posted: Best way to change partition key on existing table. The answer to that question is YOU CAN'T. All data has to be moved to change the partition key since each partition/subpartition is in its own segment. You either create a new table or use DBMS_REDEFINITION to redefine the table online.
Why do you want to export all data to a file first? That just adds to the time and cost of doing the op.
What problem are you trying to use partitioning to solve? Performance? Data maintenance? For performance the appropriate partitioning key and whether to use subpartitions depends on the types of queries and the query predicates you typically use as well as the columns that may be suitable for partition keys.
For maintenance a common method is to partition on a date by year/month/day so you can more easily load new daily/weekly/monthly data into its own partition or drop old data that no longer needs to be kept online.
You should use a small subset of the data when testing your partitionings strategies.
Can you do the partitioning offline in an outage window? If not then using the DBMS_REDEFINITION is your only option.
Without knowing what you are trying to accomplish only general advice can be given. You even mentioned that you might want to use a different set of columns than the curren table has.
A standard heap table uses ONE segment for its data (ignoring possible LOB segments). A partitioned/subpartitioned table uses ONE segment for each partition/subpartition. This means that ALL data must be moved to partition the table (unless you are only creating one partition).
This means that every partitioning scheme that uses a different partition key requires ALL data to be moved again for that test.
Provide some information about what problem you are trying to solve.
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Is this quicker than datapump?
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Yes - exporting the data simplying moves it all an additional time. Ok to export if you need a backup before you start.
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Found artcle which talks about using merge option on datapump import to convert partitioned table to non-partitioned table.
>
How would that apply to you? That isn't what you said you wanted to do.

Partition full

We ve SAP system on SQL ,the partition in which the application is installed is now full. what shall i do to refine ths partition?

HI,
I'm sorry to tell you this but in terms of OS you have to deal with the partition with your OS administrator.
Just to give you an Idea, if you have another spare disk then you have to add it to the disk array but first you need to backup the entire partition (offline will be better) then you create the new partition with the same letter you had before and restore all what it had before, start database and start SAP.
Other way will be to move data to different partitions, all depends what options you have but if you wan´t to get here a full explanation in what to do then you need to explain more the particular situation you get there.

How to Reconnect Offline Pictures Moved to New Partition

I recently partitioned my C drive and moved My Pictures (not using PE Organizer) to the new partition ("J" Drive) to separate data files from program files. I now have 25,000 pictures that are offline. How do I reconnect to the folders containing these pictures?
Windows 7 Home Premium
Photo Elements 9

Above mentioned workflow is absolutely correct, but here is some info which will help you in understanding it better through detailed steps - http://bit.ly/Jo9zhc

Offline tablespace/partition

I would like to 'archive' some tables (DB 11g R2) in a way that older data (older than 2-3 years) should not be visible.
I tried to make it with partitioned tables by putting some tablespaces offline (older partitions are on separate tablespaces)..
but this action does not seems to be valid (I got ORA-00376 & ORA-01110 errors).
So, how could I put older data 'offline'?
tnx

There is a conflict in your statement itself.
In the first post you said,
I would like to 'archive' some tables (DB 11g R2) in a way that older data (older than 2-3 years) *should not be visible*.
But in this post you said it should be easily accessible.
The one way I could think of is, move your old data to another table and keep in another tablespace.

Index on Partitioned Table with Some ReadOnly Tablespaces

We have a warehouse with fact tables range partitioned on date - daily partitions with each month worth of partitions put into a specific monthly tablespace. Each month, we set the prior month's tablespace to READONLY. So our table ends up having data in readonly and read-write tablespaces.
We now have a change we need to make to one of the fact tables - we need to add a new column AND add an index to that column. But because we have partitions in readonly state, Oracle doesn't let us create the index and it also doesn't let us update the local unique key (unique index).
Is there a way we can do this without having to put the tablespaces in read-write mode? As importantly, what happens when we offline or drop some of the older tablespaces (for archiving purposes)? We need to find a way to add the index on just the read-write partitions.
Thanks.

We have a warehouse with fact tables range
partitioned on date - daily partitions with each
month worth of partitions put into a specific monthly
tablespace. Each month, we set the prior month's
tablespace to READONLY. So our table ends up having
data in readonly and read-write tablespaces.
We now have a change we need to make to one of the
fact tables - we need to add a new column AND add an
index to that column. But because we have partitions
in readonly state, Oracle doesn't let us create the
index and it also doesn't let us update the local
unique key (unique index).
Is there a way we can do this without having to put
the tablespaces in read-write mode? As importantly,
what happens when we offline or drop some of the
older tablespaces (for archiving purposes)? We need
to find a way to add the index on just the read-write
partitions.
Thanks.Hi,
Improvements in Oracle 10g to maintain local-partitioned indexes when you use partition DDL commands:
add partition, split partition, merge partiton, move partition.
ALSO, the associated indexes NO LONGER have to be stored on the same tablespace as the table (i.e. answer to your question).
On Oracle 9i: Local indexes are recommended on data warehouse platforms. In an OLTP system, global indexes are more common. On a data data warehouse, problems can be isoloted to one partition, the partitions moved, made r/o (like yours), no local indexes need to be rebuilt
Regarding your issue:
We now have a change we need to make to one of the
fact tables - we need to add a new column AND add an
index to that columnTo maintain the simplicity + functionality of your DW configuration, I think you need to change the TS to R/W, update the objects, then alter to R/O.
fyi
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/online_ops.html

How do I make a clone of the Boot camp partition?

My MacBook Air (10.6.8) is having problems and I need to send it away for repairs. Before I do that I want to make a clone of everything and put it on my new MacBook Pro (10.7.2)
I am making a clone of the Mac partition using Carbon Copy Cloner. That has worked well as a backup for me.
The only problem is I need to make a clone of the Boot camp partition (Windows partition) and I don't know how.
I want to make an exact clone so it has all the operating system, files and everything.
The other question is when should I make a Bootcamp partition?
Should I migrate the clone to the new mac using Migration Assistant, and then make a boot camp partition? And then what are the exact steps putting the clone onto the boot camp partition?
Thanks for any help.

Here are some previous coments made on this forun regarding backup of a Boot Camp partition. I use Paragon HDMSuite 2011.
Casper 6 does seem to work;
WinClone was handy for XP users but doesn't for instance check for errors during the backup only during restore. Winclone was discontinued at 2.2, all 2.3 versions are hacks (removal of the OS check seems to be the main thing) There has been no deveoplment or support for a while now.
Acronis 2011 w/ plus pak, didn't work well previously
Ghost 15 - probably not
Casper 6 works for Windows on Boot Camp only
CopyCatX is more lengthy and sector copy so takes the longest.
Paragon Hard Drive Suite 2011 because it works great
and they have CampTune
Windows 7 system backup and restore - Apple's goofy HFS read-only interferes with system and file backup.
I have also used Casper, Clonezilla and Paragon but less regularly, Casper failed a few times, I stopped using it, Clonezilla worked but took forever (for me) Paragon (which I have only used twice) was the best but my sample is limited.
I have restored from DU, CCC, SuperDuper and TM, they all worked, TM was slower but not a lot, you can boot from the others, which I prefer.
HDM 2011 can do either offline or online backups, the difference is that with an offline backup, the entire partition (or disk) is unallocated. In an online backup, the backup utility is running against a partition that may be making changes to itself. When you run CCC or SD! in OS X, you're running an online backup. However, I would recommend (at least for the first backup) that you boot from the HDM recovery CD to do an offline backup. This will ensure that you have an *exact* copy of the parition/disk.
Since this is you first time backing up your partition, I would suggest using one of the Backup Wizards. They'll guide you through the backup process and keep you from doing something wrong Similarly, use the Restore Wizard to restore your partition/drive.
HDMS 2011- back up a dual-boot Mac to an external USB drive, do:
1) Boot from the Recovery Disk (I'm assuming that the backup hard drive is attached before you reboot)
2) Select Paragon Hard Disk Manager
3) Launch the Backup Wizard by selecting Wizards > Backup Wizard
4) Select the Mac hard disk (not the partition) where it asks "what to backup"
5) On the Backup Destination page, select "Save data to any local drive or a network share"
6) Hit the radio button for the "Save to local drive option" (unless you got a boatload of DVD's )
7) Select the external USB drive as the backup destination
8) Look over and correct the name and comments
9) Hit Next to start the backup
When it's done, you have an entire copy of your Mac's HD saved to external media.
If you need to recover your HD, just run the Recovery Wizard and reverse the process.

Solved: I cannot manage (bring online, initialize, partition, format, or write to) a VHDX hard drive once it has "Enable Virtual Hard Disk Sharing" enabled.

Hello,
Issue:
On a Virtual Machine with a secondary VHDX attached, I cannot manage (bring online, initialize, partition, format, or write to) the VHDX hard drive once it has "Enable Virtual Hard Disk Sharing (VHD Sharing)" enabled.
Questions:
Should I be able to manage (bring online, initialize, partition, format, and write to) a VHDX hard drive once it has VHD Sharing enabled? If I should be able to manage it, what am I missing?
Topography:
One SuperMicro Cluster In a Box (CIB) with 2012 R2 Data Center on each node. Microsoft Failover Cluster installed and working on each node. The Failover Cluster Servers on each host passes all cluster validation tests. Two Hyper-V 2012 R2 Data Center Virtual
Machine (VM) servers, one on each node. 1 common Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) and 1 Generation 2 Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) shared volume both Resilient File System (REFS) formatted. One 5 Gigabit (Gb) Virtual Hard Drive Type X (VHDX) file on the CSV and/or
SOFS. Integrity bit and read only turned off on VHDX file.
Each of the two Hyper-V VMs have one 127Gb VHDX Generation 2 primary hard drive and 1 VHDX secondary hard drive attached, both on SCSI Controller #1.
Background:
If I start VM1 without the VHD Sharing enabled on the secondary hard drive, I can bring the drive online, initialize, partition, format, and write to the drive.
If I enable VHD Sharing, I can no longer modify the drive in Disk Management in any way. With or without VM2 running.
Both VMs and the CSV and SOFS are on the same host cluster server, or not, no difference…
The VHDX is referenced either by the CSV name C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\TEST1.VHDX
or a Shared Folder name
\\sharedfolder\folder\Test1.VHDX .
If I start VM1 with VHD Sharing disabled and I format the drive, then shut down and enable VHD Sharing, the drive is offline and requests initialization which fails with an "I/O device error", every other attempt to manage the drive fails with
the same "I/O device error", error.
Events:
VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation. Error code: 8007045D@02070008
Log Name:      System
Source:        Virtual Disk Service
Date:          3/3/2015 11:39:18 AM
Event ID:      10
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Server1.Domain.local
Description:
VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation. Error code: 8007045D@02070008
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Virtual Disk Service" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49664">10</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-03T19:39:18.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>27318</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer> Server1.Domain.local </Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>8007045D@02070008</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name:      System
Source:        disk
Date:          3/3/2015 12:16:42 PM
Event ID:      153
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Server1.Domain.local
Description:
The IO operation at logical block address 0x0 for Disk 1 (PDO name: \Device\MPIODisk1) was retried.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="disk" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32772">153</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-03T20:16:42.017090000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>27333</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>Server1.Domain.local</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data>\Device\Harddisk1\DR1</Data>
    <Data>0x0</Data>
    <Data>1</Data>
    <Data>\Device\MPIODisk1</Data>
    <Binary>0F01040004002C00000000009900048000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020488</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
Thanks again for any help,
Robert

Hi All,
I had to buy a Willy Wonka bar and spend a golden ticket to get an answer to this one.
We found that the default LogicalSectorSizeBytes of a VHDX is 512b. It needs to be 4kb.
The Host drive doesn't seem to matter CSV or SOFS. Below is a way to create a VHDX with the correct LogicalSectorSizeBytes.
In Power Shell, type --> New-VHD -Path C:\ClusterStorage\Volume4\Cluster2DataDisks\Cluster2Disk1.vhdx -SizeBytes 200Gb -PhysicalSectorSizeBytes 4kb -LogicalSectorSizeBytes 4kb
Attach the resulting file to your guest cluster servers and set the Enable Virtual Hard Disk Sharing option on both server. You should now be able to bring the drives on-line and initialize them. They will also add to the guest cluster pool.
Change the size, path and file name above to fit your Cluster Servers configuration.
Thank You
Sachin Kumar Support Engineer | Windows Server Setup Team | Microsoft Enterprise Platform for finding the answer to this one.
Hope this helps others.
Robert

System Partition Not Set. Bcdboot failed! bcdboot.exe

Hey guys,
I have an issue that I can't get past, and I've completely run out of ideas.
I have an SCCM 2012 SP1 server and it has KB2801987 applied.
From this server, I run a Windows 7 Enterprise x86, and a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 task sequence for bare metal deployment to workstations.
Everything works perfectly fine, EXCEPT when I deploy the Windows 7 Ent x64 WIM, and I've used bootable USB media.
PXE Booting a machine, and running the task sequence that deploys Win7x64 = works perfectly.
Advertising the Win7x64 task sequence to a machine = works perfectly
Booting from a 32-bit boot usb media, running the Win7x64 task sequence -> downloads the boot(x64) WinPE image, then starts deployment = works perfectly
Booting from 64-bit boot usb media, running the Win7X64 task sequence = Task Sequence Error (0x8004005).
I've recreated my USB boot media several times. I've tried different brands/models of USB keys, and I always get the exact same error.
And this is the same error that always happens in my SMSTS.LOG. It seems it can't set the boot partition, and fails at the every end of applying the WIM image. And again, this is ONLY when I use USB boot media for THIS particular task sequence.
The exact same TS, WinPE boot image and WIM image work just fine when deployed via any other method. I guess the only thing I haven't tried yet is to make a bootable CD with the same media to see if I get the same issue. I will try that as soon
as I can.
But any ideas/help is appreciated. Thanks guys.
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<![LOG[The volume D:\ exists and is a local hard drive.]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.201-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:557">
<![LOG[The volume D:\ is using a valid file system.]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:600">
<![LOG[Windows target partition is 0-2, driver letter is D:\]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="applyos.cpp:491">
<![LOG[Succeeded loading resource DLL 'X:\sms\bin\x64\1033\TSRES.DLL']LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="util.cpp:963">
<![LOG[The machine does not have a local client cache.]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:1029">
<![LOG[ResolveSource flags: 0x00000001]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="resolvesource.cpp:3265">
<![LOG[SMSTSPersistContent: . The content for package BAC0004C will be persisted]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="resolvesource.cpp:3274">
<![LOG[The package BAC0004C is found locally in the cache D:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\BAC0004C]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="resolvesource.cpp:3301">
<![LOG[Opening image file D:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\BAC0004C\Win7 (x64) - Build and Capture v1.0.wim]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.279-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="wimfile.cpp:416">
<![LOG[Image file BAC0004C version "" will be applied]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.311-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:463">
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<![LOG[Wiping D:\]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.311-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:799">
<![LOG[Set "D:\_SMSTaskSequence" to not be wiped]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.311-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:808">
<![LOG[Set "%OSDStateStorePath%" to not be wiped]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.311-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:839">
<![LOG[Set "%_SMSTSClientCache%" to not be wiped]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.311-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:839">
<![LOG[Set "%_SMSTSNewClientCachePathToCleanup%" to not be wiped]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.311-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:839">
<![LOG[Calculating expected free space.]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.326-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="380" file="installcommon.cpp:232">
<![LOG[Reporting deletion progress.]LOG]!><time="14:21:09.420-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="380" file="installcommon.cpp:250">
<![LOG[Skipping D:\System Volume Information for wipe]LOG]!><time="14:21:35.627-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="ccmfile.cpp:983">
<![LOG[Skipping D:\_SMSTaskSequence for wipe]LOG]!><time="14:23:14.716-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="ccmfile.cpp:983">
<![LOG[Successfully wiped D:\]LOG]!><time="14:23:14.716-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installcommon.cpp:918">
<![LOG[Applying image to D:\]LOG]!><time="14:23:14.716-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:710">
<![LOG[Applying image 2 to volume D:]LOG]!><time="14:23:14.716-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="wimfile.cpp:607">
<![LOG[Successfully applied image to D:\]LOG]!><time="14:30:47.797-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:730">
<![LOG[OfflineRegistry::Init("D:\Windows")]LOG]!><time="14:30:47.797-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="offlineregistry.cpp:168">
<![LOG[Loading offline registry hive "D:\Windows\system32\config\software" into HKLM\OfflineRegistry1]LOG]!><time="14:30:47.797-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="offlineregistry.cpp:60">
<![LOG[Loading offline registry hive "D:\Windows\system32\config\system" into HKLM\OfflineRegistry2]LOG]!><time="14:30:49.830-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="offlineregistry.cpp:60">
<![LOG[CurrentControlSet is mapped to ControlSet001]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.124-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="offlineregistry.cpp:215">
<![LOG[System root for target OS is D:\Windows, System drive is D:]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.139-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:919">
<![LOG[OS Version is 6.1]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.155-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:938">
<![LOG[Successfully loaded a source BCD boot system]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.171-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="bootsystem.cpp:1196">
<![LOG[SetupNewOS: Loaded source boot system from target volume "D:\"]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.171-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:1013">
<![LOG[!sBootDevicePath.empty(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\bootvolume.cpp,34)]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.873-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="bootvolume.cpp:34">
<![LOG[System partition not set]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.873-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="3" thread="1160" file="bootvolume.cpp:34">
<![LOG[Unable to find the partition that contains the OS boot loaders. Please ensure the hard disks have been properly partitioned
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows)]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.873-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="3" thread="1160" file="bootvolume.cpp:62">
<![LOG[Command line for extension .exe is "%1" %*]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.873-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="commandline.cpp:228">
<![LOG[Set command line: "bcdboot.exe" D:\Windows /l en-US]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.873-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="commandline.cpp:731">
<![LOG[Executing command line: "bcdboot.exe" D:\Windows /l en-US]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.873-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="commandline.cpp:827">
<![LOG[Process completed with exit code 15299]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.889-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="commandline.cpp:1123">
<![LOG[uExitCode == 0, HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\framework\tscore\bcdbooter.cpp,88)]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.889-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="bcdbooter.cpp:88">
<![LOG[Bcdboot failed! bcdboot.exe D:\Windows /l en-US failed (15299)
stdout:
Failure when attempting to copy boot files.
stderr:
]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.889-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="3" thread="1160" file="bcdbooter.cpp:88">
<![LOG[TS::Boot::BcdBooter::InstallBootFilesAndConfigBCD (sTargetSystemRoot, this->defaultLanguage, sBootVolume), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installimage.cpp,1065)]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.889-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:1065">
<![LOG[Unloading offline SOFTWARE registry hive]LOG]!><time="14:30:50.889-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="offlineregistry.cpp:270">
<![LOG[Unloading offline SYSTEM registry hive]LOG]!><time="14:30:52.766-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="offlineregistry.cpp:284">
<![LOG[SetupNewOs(&pBootSystem), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installimage.cpp,1543)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.019-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:1543">
<![LOG[Configure(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installimage.cpp,1721)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.019-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:1721">
<![LOG[Installation of image 2 in package BAC0004C failed to complete..
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.019-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="3" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:1732">
<![LOG[installer.install(), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\installimage.cpp,1787)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.019-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="installimage.cpp:1787">
<![LOG[Closing image file D:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\BAC0004C\Win7 (x64) - Build and Capture v1.0.wim]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.019-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="wimfile.cpp:452">
<![LOG[Entering ReleaseSource() for D:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\BAC0004C]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.034-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="resolvesource.cpp:3616">
<![LOG[reference count 1 for the source D:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\BAC0004C before releasing]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.034-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="resolvesource.cpp:3623">
<![LOG[Released the resolved source D:\_SMSTaskSequence\Packages\BAC0004C]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.034-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="1" thread="1160" file="resolvesource.cpp:3656">
<![LOG[InstallImage( g_InstallPackageID, g_ImageIndex, targetVolume, ImageType_OS, g_ConfigPackageID, g_ConfigFileName, bOEMMedia, g_RunFromNet ), HRESULT=80004005 (e:\nts_sccm_release\sms\client\osdeployment\applyos\applyos.cpp,509)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.034-600" date="02-21-2013" component="ApplyOperatingSystem" context="" type="0" thread="1160" file="applyos.cpp:509">
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<![LOG[Failed to run the action: Apply Operating System.
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.050-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="3" thread="1084" file="instruction.cxx:3103">
<![LOG[MP server http://sccm2012svr.domain.local. Ports 80,443. CRL=false.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.050-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="utils.cpp:5300">
<![LOG[Setting authenticator]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.066-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="utils.cpp:5322">
<![LOG[Set authenticator in transport]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.066-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:7751">
<![LOG[Sending StatusMessage]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.151-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4025">
<![LOG[Setting message signatures.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.151-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:1297">
<![LOG[Setting the authenticator.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.151-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:1327">
<![LOG[CLibSMSMessageWinHttpTransport::Send: URL: sccm2012svr.domain.local:80 CCM_POST /ccm_system/request]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.151-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:8621">
<![LOG[Request was succesful.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.214-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:8956">
<![LOG[Set a global environment variable _SMSTSLastActionRetCode=-2147467259]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.214-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="executionenv.cxx:668">
<![LOG[Set a global environment variable _SMSTSLastActionSucceeded=false]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.214-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="executionenv.cxx:668">
<![LOG[Clear local default environment]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.214-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="executionenv.cxx:807">
<![LOG[Let the parent group (Install Operating System) decides whether to continue execution]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.214-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="instruction.cxx:3212">
<![LOG[The execution of the group (Install Operating System) has failed and the execution has been aborted. An action failed.
Operation aborted (Error: 80004004; Source: Windows)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.230-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="3" thread="1084" file="instruction.cxx:2425">
<![LOG[Failed to run the last action: Apply Operating System. Execution of task sequence failed.
Unspecified error (Error: 80004005; Source: Windows)]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.230-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="3" thread="1084" file="engine.cxx:214">
<![LOG[MP server http://sccm2012svr.domain.local. Ports 80,443. CRL=false.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.230-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="utils.cpp:5300">
<![LOG[Setting authenticator]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.252-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="utils.cpp:5322">
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<![LOG[Sending StatusMessage]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.252-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:4025">
<![LOG[Setting message signatures.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.268-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:1297">
<![LOG[Setting the authenticator.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.268-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:1327">
<![LOG[CLibSMSMessageWinHttpTransport::Send: URL: sccm2012svr.domain.local:80 CCM_POST /ccm_system/request]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.268-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="1" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:8621">
<![LOG[Request was succesful.]LOG]!><time="14:30:53.315-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSManager" context="" type="0" thread="1084" file="libsmsmessaging.cpp:8956">
<![LOG[Executing command line: X:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /k]LOG]!><time="14:31:12.004-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSBootShell" context="" type="1" thread="784" file="bootshell.cpp:857">
<![LOG[The command completed successfully.]LOG]!><time="14:31:12.004-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSBootShell" context="" type="1" thread="784" file="bootshell.cpp:939">
<![LOG[Successfully launched command shell.]LOG]!><time="14:31:12.004-600" date="02-21-2013" component="TSBootShell" context="" type="1" thread="784" file="bootshell.cpp:430">
http://www.dreamension.net

I am getting the exact same issue as the original post, however strangely only with one model of computer (HP Compaq 6300 Pro tower desktops).
We are using SCCM 2012 SP1 but are not using PXE, USB media only.
Same symptoms, running a deployment task sequence for x64 Windows 7 Enterprise makes it all the way through the Apply OS step which installs a .wim I've captured previously and fails when attempting to copy down the WinPE environment to continue the task
sequence.
All boot images have been updated to WinPE 4.0 and have the according driver packs added. My format and partition step creates 1 partition to use the whole drive. We do not use a separate partition for system reserved because our FDE product does not play
well with encrypting that partition because it is not an active partition.
Running the initial attempt from an x64 boot key results in failure, but running on an x86 boot key that requires the x64 boot image for deployment will complete. After the initial failure from the x64 key, the machine can't even be deployed from an x86
boot key because it still fails to write to the partition. No combination of diskpart and format from the command prompt has been able to get it deployed yet.
Any other ideas or steps to troubleshoot? I'm open to anything because this is hindering our ability to fully migrate to our 2012 environment.

Equium will not boot - how to access Recovery partition?

Hi, my sister has a 2008 Equium A200-1V0 with Vista 32-bit which will not boot (probably due to virus rootkit damage). It loads the BIOS but then goes straight to black screen with flashing cursor.
F8 does not work.
F2 goes to Phoenix TrustedCore Setup utility. The Toshiba hard drive and CD-ROM drive are listed in Main and Boot in the correct order.
Using F12 I can get it to boot from a Win7 64-bit repair disc I burned using my laptop.
However, this does not recognise the OS nor any image or restore points (because it is 64-bit) but it will load Command Prompt.
In *Command Prompt*, I can start Notepad and when I click File/ Open and double click on Computer it shows 4 Hard drives as follows:
Local Disk (C:)
Data (D:) 42 GB free of 54.5 GB
WinRE (E:) 1.11 GB free of 1.46 GB
Boot (X:) 29.0 MB free of 31.5 MB (which is used by the Repair disc)
So the C: drive is listed but without capacity.
*CHKDSK*
chkdsk c: /r and press return
"The type of the file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
*Running TESTDISK*
Analysis:
Partition Start End Size in Sectors
1 P Windows RE(store) 0 32 33 191 89 26 3072000
2 * HPFS - NTFS 191 89 27 7477 118 1 117051392
3 P HPFS - NTFS 7477 118 2 14592 190 62 114307072 (data)
* = Primary bootable
When doing Quick Search and then P - list files, of the second partition it reports:
"Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged."
So what I would like to do is boot up from Windows Restore on the E drive.
My question is to any Toshiba experts: When F8 does not work how do I use the recovery partition???
Laptop is:
Part Number : PSAF5E-002005KS
Key Features
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2310
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
- DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive
- 2,048 (1,024 + 1,024) MB RAM (667 MHz)
- 15.4 " WXGA TFT display 1,280 x 800

*UPDATE*:
I have borrowed a genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit dvd and booted up with that.
Clicked on "Repair your Computer"
Then it goes striaght to System recovery Options but no Operating System is shown. Click Next.
Then:
"Choose a Recovery Tool.
Operating system: Unknown on (Unknown) Local Disk"
*Startup Repair*
This takes 1 second.
Root cause found
System volume on disk is corrupt.
*System Restore*
"X - To Perform an offline System Restore, you must specify which Windows installation you would like to restore.
For example, if the installation located in "C:\Windows" should be restored enter the following command:
rstrui.exe /OFFLINE:C:\Windows "
*Windows Complete PC Restore*
" No valid backup locations could be found.
Windows cannot find a backup on the hard disks or DVDs on this computer. Attach the correct hard disks or insert the last backup DVD and then start the restore process again. "
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows cannot check for memory problems...[snip]
*Command Prompt*
This is working fine.
CHKSDK C:
The type of file system is NTFS.
Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted.
The HDD is 120 GB and is split by Toshiba into 3 partitions.
C:\ drive (56GB) is bootable with Windows - this is corrupted.
D:\ drive (55 GB) has all Data - fully accessible
E:\ drive is CDROM
F:\ drive (1.46 GB) is the WinRE recovery partition - this is fully accessible.
So my question still remains: can I recover my Toshiba laptop using this recovery partition?
PLEASE NOTE: as mentioned above, pressing F8 during boot has no effect and therefore Safe Mode cannot be accessed.

Need help recovering an encrpyted partition

Hello linuXians,
I have a serious problem accessing my encrypted 2TB harddisk. I connected it in a icydock-case externally via USB.
When i add it everything is still fine:
usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
scsi9 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD20 EARS-00S8B1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdf: sdf1
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
Now i try to decrypt it as usual:
[root@silverdragon stony]# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdf1 test
Geben Sie den Passsatz für /dev/sdf1 ein:
device-mapper: remove ioctl failed: Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt
Schlüsselfach 0 entsperrt.
Apparently it succeeded in unlocking the keyslot 0 BUT the disk has problems:
Buffer I/O error on device dm-2, logical block 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 17 c8 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 6088
Buffer I/O error on device dm-2, logical block 0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Unhandled sense code
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdf] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 17 c8 00 00 08 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 6088
Buffer I/O error on device dm-2, logical block 0
Now I don't know exactly how to procede or what exactly could be broken.
I assume its the superblock that i have to repair. I dont think its the luksheader or something similar.
Or do you guys think that the drive itself is broken?
Sadly the drive does not report ready so that I cant even run fsck over it to have a look at the filesystem.
What i find curious is that the drive only begins to report errors when i try to decrypt the data.
smart does not report anything unusual:
oot@silverdragon stony]# smartctl -A /dev/sdf
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, [url]http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net[/url]
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 170 140 021 Pre-fail Always - 8466
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 221
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4305
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 29
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 7109
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 108 100 000 Old_age Always - 44
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
and
[root@silverdragon stony]# smartctl -a /dev/sdf
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, [url]http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net[/url]
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1
Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2081900
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 2.000.398.934.016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Oct 10 22:03:20 2010 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (40800) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 170 140 021 Pre-fail Always - 8466
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 221
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 4305
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 66
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 29
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 7110
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 108 100 000 Old_age Always - 44
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
[root@silverdragon stony]#
As expected mounting the partition fails:
[root@silverdragon stony]# mount /dev/mapper/test /mnt/test/
2 minutes delay
mount: Sie müssen den Dateisystemtyp angeben
Does anyone have any suggestion how i can get the drive to be mounted at least once to recover the data?
Kind regards,
Stony

Just a quick update: I was able to start testdisk on that devicemapper.
Lets see what it brings up....

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