hi all, today morning I boot into my win98se and find that my e: a logical drive is missing, immediately i smelt a rotten mouse and rebooted the sytem into linux, alas, the grub and my /boot partition was the only one left. as far as i remember, till yesterday i was having more or less the following in my hdd
hda1 65MB ext2 /boot hda2 2047MB FAT16 Win98SE hda3 <> EXTENDED DOS hda4 >5gb ext2 [not mounted, my test area] hda5 6gb FAT32 [end is beyond 1024 cylynders] hda6 6gb FAT32 [start is at 1028 cylynder] hda7 5gb ext2 / hda8 5gb ext2 /home hda9 512mb swap /swap the rest of 40gb was left unallocated I was at a loss.. real pains.. on this machine we were testing all our web sites, development was being going on with three sites. well I felt like it was better for me to be hit and run by some vehicle on the road. Actually I was in such a dilemma that I could not think what to do. I was the least bothered with any other partition than the hda8. I simply could not afford to loose the information that contained in that partition. If only I had the fdisk -l /dev/hda listing with me... alas I had that too inside the /home only, silly me. I searched the net and found a single floppy distro called hal, which had enough tools for me to start my trial and error approach. after seven hours of trial i finally found all the partitions and had the correct table with me. which I prompty mailed to two accounts as well as piped to my printer and filed the hardcopy. On the way while searching for similar posts I had found gpart, which supposedly finds lost partition tables, phew, may my lack of experience, I wasted 40 minutes on it. But now when I go to sleep, I am a happy guy. Jiju ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
