> Have you tried gpart? How many partitions are there on the disk? If it's > only one partition which uses the entire disk, you can even use fdisk to > overwrite the old partition table with the new values. You could also do > that if you know the exact values for all of the partitions on the
Problem was I did not note my partition table so I needed a tool to search for them. I did find gpart and it found some parts of the drive but I did not allow it to write to disk because I wanted to try out other programs. I was able to find testdisk which supports ext3. It failed during the first try but after running it several times it successfully found the partition tables. I allowed testdisk to write the partition table to disk. But when I rebooted and tried to reinstall grub on the mbr, the drive can no longer be found. After several livecds and even a Win98 installer, I have come to the conclusion that the problem is hardware failure. That was probably why testdisk was not consistent in finding the partition tables. Testdisk seems to be a good tool. It is a must have. The only livecd that I could find that had it was INSERT from http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html INSERT is a Knoppix-based livecd that fits in a bizcard cdr. It is fast and uses fluxbox as a window manager. It uses LINKS as a browser with fb support so you can surf graphically. This distro is a good companion to my LNX-BBC. Holden -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
