Re: [lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition

2013-03-13 Thread tilmanbregler
Hi everybody, Thanks for all the advice, so far. @Pierre: I'll give that a go, if all else fails. Somehow, removing the linux partition seems a bit scary, especially after my recent experience :) @akh: I'm afraid the disk cloning is not an option. My computer is a laptop, and it's the only

[lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition

2013-03-10 Thread tilmanbregler
Hi, so this is a bit emberassing, and I appreciate if you say this is nothing to do with you. I have this dual boot Ubuntu 12.04/Windows 7 setup. And to make room for th LFS partitions i decided to shrink the Windows 7 partition. So, I read around a bit and got a bit confused by all the tools

Re: [lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition

2013-03-10 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 10/03/2013 10:33, tilmanbregler a écrit : Hi, so this is a bit emberassing, and I appreciate if you say this is nothing to do with you. I have this dual boot Ubuntu 12.04/Windows 7 setup. And to make room for th LFS partitions i decided to shrink the Windows 7 partition. [...] This

Re: [lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition

2013-03-10 Thread akhiezer
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:33:39 + From: tilmanbregler tilmanbreg...@gmail.com To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition . . so this is a bit emberassing, and I appreciate if you say this is nothing to do with you. I

Re: [lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition

2013-03-10 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:33:39 + tilmanbregler tilmanbreg...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

Re: [lfs-support] help, i hosed my windows partition

2013-03-10 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
One other thing, although it qualifies as a false hope: it just may be possible, at least theorethically, to recover most or all of the contents of the NTFS partition. So if you did manage to nuke the few starting sectors of your NTFS partition, do not lose hope just yet - unless the damage hit a