Thank you all very much for your help, here's the latest: Went back into rescue this morning, and while messing around with mount I realised that the partitions that were previously hdb3 for / and hdb6 for /home were changed.. in so far as they were now hdb6 for / and hdb7 for /home. I have recovered all of my files. And so am no longer going to go on a mad killing spree.
once again, many thanks for everyone's help! FemmeFatale wrote: >Azrael wrote: > > >>That actually helped! So thanks :) >> >>But there's a wist to the tale: >> >>turns out windows installation turned the 'C' (hdb1) from fat32 to ntfs. >>it's that I am guessing is the cause of the partition changes. >> >>The result is that doing the 'rescue' suggested lets me recover hdb6 but >>not hdb3. >> >>I can't find the files I want in hdb6 ... big suspicion that they are in >>hdb3. >> >>Yet hdb3 must sit right next to hdb1 - I don't know too much detail >>about these things ... >>and so the changes of hdb1 might have overwritten the border of hdb3??? >>Any ideas? >> >>FemmeFatale wrote: >> >> >> >>>Azrael wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I did a stupid thing. I'll admit that right upfront. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Not at all, you just didn't realize how to fix this :) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Can anyone help me recover my essential files? Is there a way to 'fix' >>>>the partition table? Is there a way to boot anyway and get to my files? >>>> >>>>Heeeeelllppppp!!! >>>> >>>>-- many thanks >>>> >>>>Azrael >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Hm... Do I help or not? Oh why not? Put CD1 in drive, boot off it, at >>>prompt hit F1, type rescue, then let it do its thing. Let it reinstall >>>Lilo. Done deal. You may have to cancel everything too and just >>>reinstall the kernel (Not X,files or anything else). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > >well... thats a royal cockup ain't it? > >you have 2 choices (and i'm not sure the first will work). > >If you can boot into XP somehow with Lilo, do so & try to convert back >to FAT32. > >If that fails, you can reinstall XP & tell it to convert to FAT32 I >believe. If not...well frankly I'm out on a limb now. Thats the extent >of my knowledge because frankly NTFS cannot be written to by Linux. Its >an almost guaranteed way to kill your partition by corruption. > >Anyone else? > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >
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