I don't want to be pesimistic, but if Windows decided to wipe your partition out, or write over it, then I think that you will be out of luck. On the other hand, I had cases where Windows reorganized the "numbers" of the partitions. That would mean that your /etc/fstab may tell to mount that partition as /dev/hda8 (the old number), but windows changed the numbers to make it /dev/hda7. In Linux, as root user, run "fdisk /dev/hda" (or hdb, hdc, etc if its on a different disk) and print the partition table. fdisk is character oriented, but it is nice and you can "quit" out of it without doing any changes. Compare your partitions with what is in /etc/fstab. Hopefully that will have been the problem.
If not, look in the documentation of fsck. You may have to run it prior to mounting the partition. If Windows did not wipe to much of your partition, you may be able to salvage your data. I suppose it is too late to talk about backups. Here is a trick. I have bought a 10 GB hard disk, and I backup all my important files to it regularly. Even if a single file is limited to 2 GB in Linux (ext2), you can write to all 10 GB of a partition if you treat the partition as a single file. I do a find of files, piped in CPIO and compressed on the fly. I can actually backup about 30 GB of data to my 10 GB. It depends on how compressible your data is. Gérard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 07 February 2002 14:13, rodrigo wrote: > Hi experts ... > > I have a serius problem here !! > I have one computer with Windows and Mandrake 8.0... > Because problems with Windows, I decided upgrade my > windows version ... All was ok with windows, but when > I came back to linux, I lost one linux partition (with very > valuable data) ... some messages like "partition table > corrupted" appear.... > > Does Exist any way to repair a corrupted partition table ? > I just like mount that partition and pick my data out !!! > > > Any idea ?? > > Rodrigo > I > > > -- Gérard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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