On 5/13/05, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Lee Braiden, > > On Friday 13 May 2005 18:32, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > Since it's not yet formatted, I would think there must be a way to > > > recover all the data still. I could install this knoppix on the small > > > 3 GB hdd and connecting the big hdd, try to recover. Is there a > > > program I can use to recover the data? > > > > Yes, there is a program around for recovering partition tables. I just > > don't > > recall the name. But wait for someone to point you to it. In other words, > > don't get impatient and break stuff before you get a good answer ;) > > I used gpart once. > > Your milage may vary. > > Suggest you dd the whole drive to a backup file before you > try anything.
Right now I do not have a backup drive to store so much but I do have another smaller driver (the one on which I installed Solaris). I could do a trial of whatever I wish to do on the drive in question, and then do the real thing after this trial succeeds. Btw, I got the file that has the partition information and it has the exaxt figures from fdisk -l. I think I'm half-saved now. But I'll do a trial of this on the smaller hdd anyway. If this fails, I won't go ahead with fdisk on the drive in question. One thing though. I had simply done a fdisk -l >> partitions.txt and that is the file I am going to use to reconstruct the partitions. Would these be the exact figures? I haven't partitioned the drive since the first time and I use grub so no lilo's backup. I have heard bad reports from a friend about gpart, so don't know if I should use it or not. Thanks and Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.