Hey ppl, I've done something real stupid and i really really really need your help.
I have a Debian 3.0 system using an ext3 partition. I recently added Mandrake 9.0 in a different partition just to check it out. Recently I noticed a performance degradation on my Debian system.....on further investigation I learnt that it wasn't using the Swap space although I could see it in my fstab (or thought i could anyways). Since I've been having a series of power outages i thought from my ass that maybe the Swap partition had gotten corrupted somehow and decided to do a mkswap from within Debian to reinit the swap.....except i didn't realize that since I installed Mandrake my disks partition system had changed and wat was earlier the swap was now my main Debian ext3 partition :( Mkswap started spewing out msgs with an EXT3....bad directory....and a few seconds in i realized that somethings wrong and i did a hard reboot. Now if I try to boot into Debian I get a kernel panic. When booted into Mandrake, fdisk still shows the partition as a Linux partition with id 83.......if I try to mount this partition i get a bad fs, bad superblock or too many mounted filesystems msg. If i try doing a swapon /dev/hda6 (hda6 is or was my ext3)just to see if i can load it as swap, swapon doesn't complain :( Under Windows Partition Magic still shows the partition as Linux Guys I really really really need the data on my partition (and preferably the entire system up and running).....i know i know it ain't fair for u guys to be bearing the brunt of trying to solve my stupidity :( but I'd really appreciate it :( Do u think something like gpart would help....but since the partition still shows up and it's the data within that i'm after I dunno :( Pls help. Bye for now __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
