Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]

2005-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it, rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and (after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions and created just one partition, and changed the type to bf (Solaris) -- the same thing which

Re: Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]

2005-05-15 Thread Marty
Deboo ^ wrote: I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it, rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and (after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions and created just one partition, and changed the type to bf (Solaris) -- the same

Re: Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]

2005-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/15/05, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it, rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and (after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions and created just one

Re: Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]

2005-05-15 Thread Marty
Deboo ^ wrote: I was already wared about such a thing and that's why I did this small trial. But now I am stuck what to do to get the data back ... other than by getting a newer hard drive ...which would be hard on the pocket for me. Again, attempting to duplicate a problem like this is

Re: Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]

2005-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Deboo ^ wrote: Well, I just wanted to do a trial run of what I was to do on the drive in question so I installed knoppix on this smaller drive, booted it to test it is working, then booting off the knoppix CD again, I deleted the partitions (the same thing that

Re: Strange: Linux boots off a deleted partition [Was Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!]

2005-05-15 Thread Cyprien
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:17:31AM -0400, Deboo ^ wrote: I did a trial on a smaller hard disk. Installed knoppix on it, rebooted from the hdd to test it. Rebooted again from the Live CD and (after taking down the Linux partition info) deleted the partitions and created just one partition, and