I have been asked to include disktype information for the drive:

$ sudo disktype /dev/sda

--- /dev/sda
Block device, size 1.365 TiB (1500301910016 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 3.725 GiB (3999268864 bytes, 7811072 sectors from 2048,
bootable)
  Type 0x83 (Linux)
  Ext2 file system
    UUID 728591A9-DDBF-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX (DCE, v4)
    Volume size 3.725 GiB (3999268864 bytes, 976384 blocks of 4 KiB)
  Linux LVM2 volume, version 001
    LABELONE label at sector 1
    PV UUID ajtoix-aTPi-6RoJ-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX
    Volume size 1.365 TiB (1500300443648 bytes)
Partition 2: 1.361 TiB (1496300127232 bytes, 2922461186 sectors from
7815166)
  Type 0x8E (Linux LVM)
  Linux LVM2 volume, version 001
    LABELONE label at sector 3
    LABELONE data inconsistent, aborting analysis


Praying that this threads with my original e-mail.

Thanks again.



On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:09 PM, meLon <earthmelon@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> After noticing warnings saying "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"
> when using pv/lv commands I looked into what could be causing the issue and
> attempted to fix the issue.  I had a HDD with an ext2 /boot partition and
> an LVM containing an encrypted volume.  I ran sfdisk to change the second
> partition's filesystem code to 8e and rebooted.
>
> After rebooting, I was shown an error when I would normally type in my
> encrypted volume's passphrase.  I cannot remember the exact error, but I
> was unable to recover.  I pulled the HDD and installed Linux onto another
> HDD.
>
> I put the old HDD containing data I would like to recover in another
> machine and tried to see what I could do.  pvscan and lvscan would show a
> pv, but would report the Incorrect metadata area header checksum warning.
>  I tried to mount my /boot partition, but it said something along the lines
> of "Unknown filesystem type LVM.....".  However, if I used *-t ext2*, the
> /boot partition would mount without a problem.  I ran fsck.ext4 (big
> mistake) on the /boot partition which destroyed all of the data on that
> partition.  The destruction of /boot is not important to me, but the steps
> I took to do it may give some insight on my LVM issue.
>
> At this point, I believe that I accidentally told sfdisk that my /boot was
> an LVM partition which was why I was unable to boot into my os.
>
>
> Now I have the HDD  set up and when running pvdisplay I see the HDD, but
> it does not show a VG name and reports it as a "new physical volume".
>  Because it's not assigned to a VG, it does not get placed in /dev/mapper,
> which means I cannot run cryptsetup to unlock the drive.
>
> Any recovery/backup information that I see being used by other people to
> rectify similar situations resided on the drive I am having problems with,
> which makes it impossible for me to use such data for recovery.
>
> I am hoping there is a way to assign this PV to a VG without destroying
> any data on the disk so that I can decrypt it and export the data from the
> drive.
>
> I am currently dd'ing the drive to another drive so that any suggestions I
> get from this mailing list can be executed without taking me further from
> retrieving my data.
>
> I appreciate you taking the time to read this email and thank you for any
> input or suggestions you may have.
>
>
>   "/dev/sda1" is a new physical volume of "1.36 TiB"
>   --- NEW Physical volume ---
>   PV Name               /dev/sda1
>   VG Name
>   PV Size               1.36 TiB
>   Allocatable           NO
>   PE Size               0
>   Total PE              0
>   Free PE               0
>   Allocated PE          0
>   PV UUID               ajtoix-aTPi-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX
>
>
>
>
> --
> - meLon
>



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- meLon