Re: ext3 partition recovery

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:27:59PM +, Miguel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hi, > > last night I decided to format a partition to fat32 and I used window$ > to do this (bad decision...). Aparently, all went ok but, today, when I > rebooted the machine to linux, my home partition has been erased!

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-30 Thread Jeetu Golani
in a position to > > reconstruct your partition table using fdisk, however don't reinstall > > your OS or do any significant writing to your disk since it may erase > > data and make things irrcoverable. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Bye > > > >

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-30 Thread Miguel
t work then you should still be in a position to > reconstruct your partition table using fdisk, however don't reinstall > your OS or do any significant writing to your disk since it may erase > data and make things irrcoverable. > > Good luck. > > Bye > > ---

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:51 PM Subject: Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this > Yes, I have the /boot/boot.003 file but I don't know how to use it or > event to get that information (it is a binary file...). > > Do you

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-29 Thread Miguel
Yes, I have the /boot/boot.003 file but I don't know how to use it or event to get that information (it is a binary file...). Do you really think I should try to use the gpart -w ? That is risky because I can boot the system--the disk is in a laptop and I cannot remove that disk or even add anothe

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Forgot to add this to my earlier mail, you mentioned you have the partition info when you used lilo. Please mail that info, you should be able to reconstruct your partition table with that info using fdisk. Bye On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 4:06 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530 >

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I feel strongly that this problem is recoverable, however you will have to construct a manual partition table using the Linux Fdisk. With a lil bit of guess work and a lil trial and error I think you should be able to recover the partitions and data within. I think you mentioned you used

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-29 Thread Miguel
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530 Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your > partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to > think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being >

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-28 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi there, Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being detected by fdisk i.e. one partition more than what you suggested in your earlier mail

ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-28 Thread Lu
Ok, here goes the output of some useful commands. Hope it helps... fdisk -l /dev/hda: -- Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 510 409654

ext3 partition recovery

2003-01-28 Thread Miguel
hi, last night I decided to format a partition to fat32 and I used window$ to do this (bad decision...). Aparently, all went ok but, today, when I rebooted the machine to linux, my home partition has been erased! (It was the last partion in the disk). My partition looks (used to...) like this: