For recover of the old partition table try gparted. It's saved my buns a couple of times. It should be on the recovery disk if not I'm 98% sure it's in tomsrtbt
James On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:13:18 +0100 Azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > I did a stupid thing. I'll admit that right upfront. > > windows was a bit unstable.. so I reinstalled. > now my linux installation doesn't boot, due to partition table > problem. > > Let me explain my setup: > > primary disk: > /dev/hdb1 - small windows boot partition for windowsXP FAT32 > /dev/hdb3 - / for mdk8.2 using ext3 > /dev/hdb6 - /home for mdk 8.2 using ext3 > > secondary disk: > /dev/hde1 - WindowsXP NTFS > plus additional FAT32 windows storage partition. > > I didn't touch hdb1 in my re-install... and I wasn't thinking straight > and trusted windows wouldn't do anything except drop a few files > there, as it already existed. > I re-installed windowsXP into hde1. Even reformated. trusting this > wouldn't affect the other disk. > > Now when I boot into linux.. or try to.. I get kernel panic errors. > If I try to put in the mdk8.2 installation disk it can't read the > partition tables and wants to nuke them all. > If I use partition magic 7 (on windows) it says: Disk 1 has > partitions created using a different drive geometry. This serious > problem can lead to data loss. > The program then just shows that entire disk without any partition > info, as it doesn't want me doing anything to it. > > I am guessing my partition table is a llittle hosed. > Frankly I don't care about losing 99% of my linux installation. > However I would like to recover some files from my /home directory, > those being my very essential M.Sc project files. > They are not backed up anywhere else that places on my linux > partition... after all I trusted their safety there more than on > windows... I wasn't counting on windows being sneaky enough to find > them on my linux partition and nuke them.. let alone for it to nuke > the whole lot. > As I said... I did a stupid thing. > > Can anyone help me recover my essential files? Is there a way to 'fix' > the partition table? Is there a way to boot anyway and get to my > files? > > Heeeeelllppppp!!! > > -- many thanks > > Azrael > > > > >
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