J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My goal was to erase the first three partitions (because I never used > them anymore) and combine them into one large ext2 partition for more > data storage. (There were a total of five or six between the > primary/extended.) Using the Ultimate Boot CD and XFDISK, I deleted > the first three partitions, rebooted, and attempted to use the same > utility to create one large ext2 partition. However, after it created > the partition, XFDISK reported an error writing the partition data. > > The result is that none of the hdb partitions are accessible. I
Had similar trouble after erasing a partition with the Windows partitioner. I used testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) and managed to recover everything, but YMMV, do it on your own risk, .... Beware that usage (at least for me) was not very intuitive. I was missing only one partition. On the first run I managed to recover it, but lost all others due to misunderstanding the interface. I managed to recover all of them on the second run though. HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
