Hi All, I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions to FAT32. So, I booted into linux and used fdisk to delete a partition(hda5). After deleting the partition, when fdisk listed the partitions, it had mysteriously deleted all other logical partitions as well!! (except for swap space).
I have been doing some googling on this since morning and havent been able to find anything. I have also tried to use the "undelete" feature in Partition Magic. But it returned an error and didn't go further. Is there anything that I can do about it? I am particular on this because, one of the partitions happen to be my /home... :( Following was the partition structure before I deleted hda5. +---+--------+-------+--------------------------------------------+ | | | |-----------+----+------+-----------+--------| | | hda2 | hda3 | hda5 | 6 | hda7 | hda8 | hda9 | | 1 | C: | / |/data(ext2)|swap|/home |/multimedia| /extra | | | NTFS | ext2 | 9.8GB | |2.0GB | 10GB | 6.0GB | | | 4.9GB | 5.0GB |-----------+----+------+-----------+--------| +---+--------+-------+--------------------------------------------+ Partitions: 1 --- FAT16,DellUtility,30Mb 2 --- NTFS,WinXP Pro,4.9Gb 3 --- ext2, / ,5Gb 5 --- ext2, /data ,9.8Gb 6 --- swap, /swap ,512Mb 7 --- ext2, /home ,2.0Gb 8 --- ext2, /multimedia,10Gb 9 --- ext2, /extra ,6.0Gb After deleting the partition, now all the logical partitions show up as unallocated free space, except for swap! -vikas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
