Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 04:19, Linus Drouhard wrote: > This is over my head. I have tried cfdisk, and everything "looks" to be in > order. I was able to recreate a 39 GB partition on the leftover space and > get it mounted as ext3. I couldn't format it as xfs (like the rest of my > partitions). I still can't do anything with the rest of the partition. > When I run cfdisk, it will let me write the new partition table, but then > it errors on rereading the table and tells me to reboot. It still isn't > right after a reboot. I think I'm staring at a complete wipe of the drive > and starting from scratch. Don't be too quick on that. There are two tools to help you here: "testdisk" and "gpart". I've had the best results with testdisk myself, especially in the case of rewriting partition tables. gpart is more thorough by the looks of it. Try them both but start with "testdisk" I'd say. testdisk can be gotten as an rpm (testdisk-4.4-2.i386.rpm) on their site: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html Gpart can be found as SRPM at cooker but at http://smokeping.planetmirror.com/pub/gpart/ you can download the statically linked version which works fine on my mdk9.x systems and it's small enough to keep on a floppy:o) Mind you they're both console tools! Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:53:49 +1000
Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500, Linus Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a
> > partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any
> > file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly
> > (at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back
> > the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and
> > recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I
> > even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the
> > second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same.
> >
> > I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However,
> > I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Linus
>
>
> Try this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/
>
>
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>
This is over my head. I have tried cfdisk, and everything "looks" to be in order. I
was able to recreate a 39 GB partition on the leftover space and get it mounted as
ext3. I couldn't format it as xfs (like the rest of my partitions). I still can't do
anything with the rest of the partition. When I run cfdisk, it will let me write the
new partition table, but then it errors on rereading the table and tells me to reboot.
It still isn't right after a reboot. I think I'm staring at a complete wipe of the
drive and starting from scratch.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500 Linus Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: List Nazi here, please set your mailer to wrap text at less than 80 characters please! Thanks a bunch, best of luck, all that. :-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone de Beauvoir Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:40:35 -0500, Linus Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a
> partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any
> file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly
> (at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back
> the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and
> recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I
> even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the
> second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same.
>
> I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However,
> I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Linus
Try this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/
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[newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!
I have misplaced 60 GB on my 120 GB Maxtor drive (well, Linux has). I have a partition set aside for video editing that is 85 GB. It shows up with any file manager as 25 GB. Diskdrake shows it as 85 GB. It is mounting properly (at least it's pointing to hda9). Does anybody have any idea how to get back the 60 GB. The partition is currently empty. I've deleted the partition and recreated it...several times, with several different file systems. Same. I even made it into two partitions. The first is recognized (sometime), the second, never. I tried booting up Knoppix, same. I will reformat the hard drive it I can't figure out anything else. However, I am willing to experiment if anyone has any ideas to try. Thanks, Linus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
