Hi Anita,
> Question: when you used fdisk to delete the partitions, and
> then looked at them and you saw that there were missing ones,
> did you actually *write* the partition table or did you just
> exit? If you didn't write it, then you should be able to
> boot as before and find the partition table intact. The
> change is only made if you write it after doing all the
> changes - at least that's how it was last time I did this.
> What exactly does 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' show with a rescue disk
> right now?
I didn't *write* the partition table to disk at all.
that's exactly what I cannot understand.
the sequence of commands that I used were somewhat like
this -
# fdisk /dev/had
(m for help):p
now, p listed the partition table as in my previous posting.
Then I chose "d" - that's delete partition.
Fdisk prompted me for the partition number.,
I looked at the table printed out with the earlier
command and very confidently chose "5".
then, again I chose "p"....
to my horror, the primary partitions are intact whereas
the swap is the only logical partition that shows up.
so I used "q" to quit, which I certainly think is quit without
saving..! After this, I reboot into windows to give one last
try using PQMagic, when, to my horror, even PQMagic returns
all the logical partitions as unallocated space except the swap.
> Man, what a nasty surprise, especially if this happened
> without writing the partition table!
tell me about that! :(
> logical partitions. The data is still there, but the
> partition table has been overwritten.
I certainly hope so ...
-vikas
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