Can one be so stupid as to corrupt his own partition table? Yes. That was me last night. :(
I have two HDs. Disk 1 has WinXP (system and data in separate paritions) and Gentoo Linux (/boot / and swap). No problem with this one though. The second disk has /dev/hdb1 Reiser4 with data in it.(primary) /dev/hdb2 Reiserfs with XandrOS in it. (primary) /dev/hdb3 Extended /dev/hdb4 Slack10 Reiserfs(primary) /dev/hdb5 Swap (logical) /dev/hdb6 Novell Desktop Linux 9 Reiserfs (logical) And this is where my problem lies. I was planning to convert /dev/hdb2 to FAT32 so that both Windows and the other Linuxes can read/write on it. And so, I moved everything to /dev/hdb2 for the meantime (7.1GB worth of data). I was in gentoo. Sadly, I don't have mkfs.vfat installed so rebooted to XP. I fired up ControlPanel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management. Then I went to Disk Management. There, I deleted /dev/hdb1 and tried formatting it to FAT32. After it is done; it refreshed and the whole Disk is gone!!! I kept myself from cursing M$ and myself... I rebooted to gentoo and fdisk -l /dev/hdb gives me nothing. sfdisk -d /dev/hdb dumps the partitions in hdb but with errors about overlapping ... thank God the Disk is still there. I can still boot Novell Linux and Slack 10; I can also mount them while in Gentoo. However hdb1 and hdb2 are lost in oblivion. If I just fdisk /dev/hdb, it gives me seek error. It says "unseekable"... :( Here are the some options I gleaned from searches I made this morning: 1)Try GnuParted 2)Partition Magic 3)sfdisk (but the problem is, i don't have the original info about the beginning and ending of each sectors). Any other hints? Mhac -- Mozilla Firefox 1 - getfirefox.com Mozilla Thunderbird 1 - mozilla.org OpenOffice.org 1 ============= http://mulingsilang.blogspot.com I'm an Open Source Enthusiast. c",) -- 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
