WinCE file system format?

[volkswagner]

What is the format of the internal drive when running WinCE?

It seems Linux does not recognize it.

Gparted lists the drive as 494.19 MB and as unallocated. 

/dev/hda information on the drive is listed as having 1012096 sectors.  When I used the dd command on this drive, it is seen as having 1024000 sectors.  Why the discrepancy?  Is Gparted missing the Boot Partition?

[Fleegman]

It's only the older builds of slackware (ie: NimbleX2007 and Slax5) that have a hard time reading the filesystem.  If you connect a USB hub, and plug in an external keyboard, mouse and a Slax6.0.9 usb boot stick, it can read the file system with no problems --- you can actually mount the drives and browse them too.

Off the top of my head, I don't remember what type of filesystem it is, I would have to boot into it using a newer distro --- and currently I don't have my USB hub at the moment to plug and find out, or I would.

[volkswagner]

Thanks Fleegman,

Do you think this is my problem with trying to use dd to create an image with the current NimbleX build?

Perhaps I should try a later distro.  I can try once I get my USB hub.

http://webdt.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=164#p164

[david_halliday]

did you try

dd -bs=512

Dave.

[volkswagner]

did you try

dd -bs=512

Dave.

I did not try it at 512.  I did it two ways.  On the second try I wrote the dd to an .img file.  I would think writing to an image file would eliminate the block size as a variable, since no block size is used when writing the image.

Is my assumption correct?

[fabio]

hallo, can anyone send to me the wince files to reinstall? i deleted it when i tried to install xp!! thanks a lo, my mail is gugarch@fastwebnet.it

[david_halliday]

I don't think so. Now if I remember correctly dd has a default block size of 512bytes, and most disks use a block size of 4K (4096 bytes) using a block size higher than the disk block size is not good. So the optimum dd command would be something like

dd if=/dev/sdc of=/my/backup.dd bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror

replace sdc with your dive and /my/backup.dd with were you want to stash the image.

leaving bs off or at 512 would be ok but a little slower.

Dave.

[volkswagner]

Since I did not specify the block size when I stored as an image, is the reasoning for my reply above.  My interpretation of your response is, it should have worked without specifying the BS.

I believe the real issue is the operating system.  I don't think it is recognizing the drive correctly.  I need to use the dd command with an OS that properly reads the drive.  Slax 5 was used, which does not properly read the disk.

I have yet been able to boot an OS that recognizes the drive.  I have heard Slax 6 will see it.  I gave away my Slax 6 disk, I will burn another one.  I am not sure if I still have the .iso, I may have to download it again.



I am not going to have much time this weekend, but Monday my plan is to get to the bottom of this.

[david_halliday]

Ah, sorry, yes if you did not specify a block size you would have got 512bytes which should be just fine. I the problem does lie elsewhere.

Dave.