VanLUG Email Archive
Vulcana (pawright@eyrie.org)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 05:56:16 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Kevin Lindsay wrote:
>
> Basically you blew away the partition table of the drive. There are some
That about sums it up.
What we did when Win '95 did us that favor was the following. (Slightly
different situation.)
In our case Win '95 decided it didn't really like the 800 MB we gave it
and it decided to go for a complete 1 G (it was a 2 G drive) This took
out the / partition and the next one over which I think was /usr. We had
partitioned quite a bit which saved most of our data for us.
In this case since this was the main and only drive in the system we
removed it and placed it in another linux system which was working. (In
your case since it is hdb hda should be working and allow you to boot.)
On the other system we did our best to remember what that partition sizes
were and in which order. (Now we print the partition table in case this
ever happens again.)
Starting at the back of the disk where there wasn't any damage we created
a partition and tried to mount it. If this failed we knew we didn't have
the right size quite yet and decreased the first cylinder position and
recreated the partiton. When we were able to mount the partition we wrote
down the size and the position and continuted on to the next one.
It was a 2 hour exercise in fustration but we were able to recover /home
and /var/spool/mail which is what we wanted.
The conclusion of this long story is that it is possible to recover
partitioning info by hand using fdisk and a lot of patience. You just
have to decide if it is worth it.
Patricia Wright
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