On 05/05/2013 16:44, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. > for some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying > on sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during > recovery its diskpart must have deleted the information about the 10th > partition on the disk, containing my main Gentoo system. Recovery > failed, but sysrescuecd still works :) > > Now I'm concerned about the rescueing of the partition on the SSD, is it > the same way as on HDDs and are the same memory-parts of the SSD used? > Or is the partiton gone forever? And when I recreate a partition, will > the PV with the data still be there and readable?
Make a backup copy of the entire disk with one of the dd* apps around then try it and see what happens. Your question is not one that can really be answered better than "maybe", so try it and see. The odds are on your side - Windows probably just did what Windows does best (assume it's the only thing in the universe) and trashed the partition table, not all the data on the disk. However, do not run Windows or any software that will change the disk except rescue utilities till you have rescued everything. Just in case Windows _does_ decided to overwrite data -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
