Can you please point towards an article regarding re creating the partition table?
2010/1/25 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> > Quoting "Alan Lord (News)" <alansli...@gmail.com>: > > > On 25/01/10 08:56, javadayaz wrote: > >> The only problem is i dont think the hard drive is mounted, even though > >> fdisk -l does show it as /dev/sda.!! > > > > You do not want to mount it! > > > > The output of your fdisk -l command shows that there are no partitions > > on /dev/sda so you can't mount it anyway. > > > > I'm not sure of the applications you'll need, but follow the advice of > > previous posters: > > > > Boot from a LIVE CD and then install the system tools you need to try > > and repair the disk. You *might* just need to re-create the partition > > table for that drive. > > > > My first suggestion would be to download the System Rescue CD and try > > some of the tools on that: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page > > > > (I tend to keep a recent copy of this tool lying around at all times). > > > > If it was me, and the data was important, then I'd be looking at doing > a copy of the drive too just in case, maybe using dd to a file on an > external hard drive. Better safe than sorry I say :-) > > Having done something similar a couple of times in the past I would > also suggest maybe re-creating the partition table, although I think > you're going to need some more assistance than can be provided on just > the mailing list. > > Rob > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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