On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> Deleting partitions with DOS fdisk (and most partitioning programs)
> doesn't touch anything except the partition table itself. So all data in
> those partitions and the file system structure itself should be
> untouched - unless other steps were taken besides just deleting the
> partition.
>
As soon as I heard what happened, I told my colleague to turn the computer
off and not mes with anything till I had asked here.
[...]
> If you need a hand, get the Ranish Partition Manager and run this
> command from a DOS prompt: (type part /? for snytax)
>
> part -d 1 -p -r > part1.txt (for the first drive)
> part -d 2 -p -r > part2.txt (for the second drive, if any)
>
> Post the contents of the text file(s) here, and also any information you
> have about where the partitions were located on the drive. I, or
> someone, will see what we can do from there.
Ok here it is:
------BEGIN--------------------------------------------------------------------
Ranish Partition Manager Version 2.38 Beta 1.8 July 21, 1999
HD 1 (128) 17,201M [ 2,330 cyls x 240 heads x 63 sects = 35,229,600 sects ]
Problems File Starting Ending Partition
# Type Row System Type Cyl Head Sect Cyl Head Sect Size [KB]
0 MBR Master Boot Record 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
1 Pri Unused 0 0 2 2,260 239 63 17,093,159
! 2 Pri 4 Linux ext2fs 2,261 0 1 2,330 14 63 522,112
Partition table details:
Problems Starting Ending Starting Number of Ending
# Type R FS Cyl Head Sct Cyl Head Sct sector sectors sector
0 MBR FF 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
1 Pri 00 0 0 2 2,260 239 63 1 34,186,319 34,186,319
! 2 Pri 4 83 2,261 0 1 2,330 14 63 34,186,320 1,044,225 35,230,544
Problems with partition 2:
Partition addresses are out of range
Partition records exactly as they appear in MBR (EMBR):
Starting Ending Starting Number of
# HD FS Cyl Head Sect Cyl Head Sect sector sectors
(0,0,1):
1 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 00 83 1,023 63 63 1,023 63 63 34,186,320 1,044,225
Detailed information about each partition:
--- Partition 2 ---
Type: Linux ext2fs CHS=(2261,0,1) 522,112 k 1,044,225 sectors
Print info function is not available for this file system.
------END----------------------------------------------------------------------
Unfortunately I don't remember exactly which raw devices mapped to which
partitions when I set up this computer (and my colleague may have moved
them around anyway) but putting our heads together we think the layout was
something like this:
fs type size (MB) location (not sure)
/ ext2 512 /dev/hda7
/usr ext2 4096 /dev/hda8
/home ext2 2048 /dev/hda9
/var ext2 2048 /dev/hda10
swap swap 512 /dev/hda4
The first and second primary partitions were the DOS ones he created and
may have had logical drives in them, he isn't sure.
Thanks for your help, we really appreciate it.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
