Ric Parsons wrote: > YES I DID examine the display, it did not > say which partition was what, all I know > is that it is the third partition, /boot > / then /home, but it was not displayed that > way because it did not even TRY to read > the drive just the damnb partition table, > I want something that will scan the entire drive, > find the partition barriers, and then re-write > the partition table, for your info, I DID > study the literature and I DID NOT UNDERSTAND > it, it DID NOT TELL ME what I NEEDED TO DO, > sorry but I am handicapped > and I need EXTRA Help with some things. > > All it did was display a blank drive and > I know that is not what it is, it said > the entire 20Gb thing was blank, > but you can't blank an entire drive > in less than one second, you would have to > have a special utility that would go over the > whole thing and set the data to all zeros, > when a partition is erased, it just erases > the "card catalogue" that tells where > all the books in the library are. > > I'm sorry if you don't know the answer, > its ok to not know something, don't be ashamed > if you don't know everything, no one does, > all you gotta say is "I don't know" and I will > ask someone who does, no problem. > > If anyone else knows, or would like to try, > please I would appreciate some input. > > If needed, I will email in again and > try to re-state the problem in a way that > can be understood, I'm sorry I have bad > communication skills, I will take as long > as I need here until I get the information > I need, then I will drop the subject > when my drive can once again be accessed, > and thank all those who helped or at least > tried. > > Thanks to alex for at least trying. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
OK boot the install CD and hit F1 when the splash screen comes up when it gets to the prompt # then type # fdisk -l /dev/hda this will give you a partition list Write it down or save it to a floppy--to save it to a floppy... # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # fdisl -l /dev/hda > /mnt/floppy/partinfo and partinfo will be a text file on the floppy Don't go any further yet. Just send me the partition info and we'll go from there. There is an ext2 explorer program that can .look at a disk and dump the raw information from ext2 partitions, but right now I don't even know what filesystem you are using. There is also a windows program called explore2fs, and there is a program on the rescue CD that tries to guess which partition might be /, but there is no program that does what you describe... For one thing, it would have to have a lot of intelligence, would require a fully operational system to run (which means mount your drive as a slave on a computer running linux), and would have to be written to handle at least a dozen filesystems, including the image file used when someone installs linux for windows. That implies hugeness on a program for a very limited use, not something that is likely to interest a development engineer. Civileme
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