Hi,
My friend was installing Debian Sarge on a 40 GB hard disk which already had windows xp - with two NTFS drives. C: - 10 GB and D: 20 GB.
During the disk partitioning, he did something wrong, so he canceled it and booted back into xp - only to find his D drive missing.
He told me that during the partitioning, the installer gave some error like - 'cannot overlap partition' etc .
AFAIK, even if we delete a partition, we can recover the data if we haven't formated it(Correct me if I'm wrong). I googled a lot, tried a lot of tools like - gpart, testdisk .... but none was able to find out the D drive. BTW, I'm not concerned about recovering the entire partition - my friend just needs his outlook's .pst file.
Does someone have idea about how to recover a lost partition??
Thanks, Mejo
if its overlap the way to recover the data is hard (not guaranteed either) and if you dont do anything soon enough it will gradually amaze you. I faced it once when I saw my 40 gigs rabbit as a 640 gig monster, and eventually I had to go for a low-level format. Later I realize something else could be done also here goes
1. boot the system in linux from CD I'd prefer using knoppix.
2. create an empty partition table. (at this stage you have all your data but cant access it)
3. rewrite a new partition table (how to do this I'm not sure but try reading man page of fdisk should be there not sure though).
and most important I think this should work but I am not sure in any case wether you try this or not I would _HIGHLY_ recommend to make a full backup of what ever you can access.
hope it helps
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