Hi Neil, I guess the partitions were hda1, hda5 and hdc1, hdc5 respectively, and the hda5, hdc5 were being used as backup partitions.
If they were ( I mean my assumption is right), there is nothing to loose heart, cheer up. Get hold of a disk editor. As I have worked with Norton disk editor, I would recommend the same. Search for extended partition, note down the sector, side and cylinder no.. The second step would be . Delete the first entry and in the second entry write down the details of the extended partition found. reboot. Give some hits and trials with the editor, but remember not to edit any other sector apart from of the MBR of your hard disk. I have full faith, you will be able to do it. Best of Luck Kapil Sethi System Administrator BharatConnect Ltd. Ph: 011-6430147 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Dsouza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: [ilugd]: Lost partition > hi guys. > let me tell u a story. there was once a linuxbox, with > 2 hdds - hda and hdc(2 main partitions... one for the > OS and one bakup both ext2 formatted on each drive > respectively)... now on an automated rh7.2 install, > linux decided to jack both the partitions into one and > dominate both the ext2 filesystems. is there any way i > can get the backup data back? it is very important and > i dont mind paying for it(heavily also). there have > been no bytes written to the sectors that indicate the > start of the former partition and i havent even > started linux since its install. please offer any > assistance possible. URGENT!!! > > Neil > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com > > ================================================ > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header > Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= > ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
