I got a new toy (plugcomputer) that can boot from SD cards. My wife's laptop has got an SD card reader built in so I borrowed it and booted from an Ubuntu LiveCD reassuring her nothing could possibly go wrong.
Anyway, to cut a long story short I used fdisk and ran 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2' instead of 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb2' and accidentally wiped her NTFS Windows partition (boot/documents etc.). She has no backup and I'm so not getting any Christmas presents if I don't get it sorted. I've had a good read on forums but am looking for specific information about my personal situation. I was using a LiveCD, I didn't install anything on the formatted partition because I realised straight after and on reboot the machine says Operating System Not Found so in theory other than damage caused by the formatting process everything should still be there. What would be the best thing for me to do in this situation? Is it possible to restore the partition to NTFS and continue as if nothing has happened? What exactly does fdisk do when you format to ext3? Any advice gratefully received. Stewart _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
