ok problem solved, the partion deleted was ext3 i must have clicked install without paying attention to the format partion dialog in the installer anyway i used http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and it recovered my data
On 3/9/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:52, "Ghaith Hachem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about '[gentoo-user] lost partition table': > > help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition > > For some reason, I doubt that, unless you told it to. > > > fdisk don't show it what can i do? > > is there a way to restore it > > Well, you can just re-create it if you have the exact starting cylinder and > upper bound on the ending cylinder (you can always make it w/ extra space > on the end, at least temporarily). > > Without that information, you'll have to look for the filesystem superblock > (I hope you weren't using NTFS), determine what cylinder that's on and > start the partition there -- you can probably figure out the size of the > filesystem from the superblock data, too. > > This is, of course, assuming you haven't written any data to the space used > by the filesystem. In that case, you will almost certainly be unable to > perform a full restore and have likely lost a large amount of your data, > if not all. > > -- > "If there's one thing we've established over the years, > it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest > clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." > -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
