cervixcouch wrote:
Boot with the Ultimate Boot CD, pick the partition recovery option, and let the program restore the partition table. As long as you have not created new partitions, chances are good that it will find the correct partition start and size. Once you create new partitions, you give it more possibilities. You also run the risk that the new partitions will overlap what you are trying to save. Then you wipe out some of the information needed to recover the partition when you format.Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Steve Jeppesen wrote:
It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try...On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) "cervixcouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone)
I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install)
I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes.
Any suggestions?
have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on.
Mikkel
OK, I'll bite. If the OS won't boot, the partitions are all gone and rescue complains that it can't find /usr, what would the fairly simple solution be in such a situation?
Now, if you want to make recovery easy in case you ever do this again, you can also write a copy of the partition table to a floppy, and restore it from floppy if the table ever gets damaged. The tools to do it are on the CD. It is a must for any geek's tool box.
Mikkel
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