RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

[Anita Lewis <ajlewis2@intac.com>]

Vikas B N said:
>
>> What exactly does 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' show with a rescue disk
>> right now?
>         I didn't *write* the partition table to disk at all.
>         that's exactly what I cannot understand.
>         the sequence of commands that I used were somewhat like
>         this -
>
>         # fdisk /dev/had
>           (m for help):p
>
>         now, p listed the partition table as in my previous posting.
>          Then I chose "d" - that's delete partition.
>          Fdisk prompted me for the partition number.,
>         I looked at the table printed out with the earlier
>         command and very confidently chose "5".
>         then, again I chose "p"....
>
>         to my horror, the primary partitions are intact whereas
>         the swap is the only logical partition that shows up.
>
>         so I used "q" to quit, which I certainly think is quit without
>          saving..! After this, I reboot into windows to give one last
>         try using PQMagic, when, to my horror, even PQMagic returns
>         all the logical partitions as unallocated space except the swap.
I wonder if PQMagic is the problem.  Did you try booting with a rescue disk
and doing 'fdisk -l /dev/hda'?  If that shows that you are missing all those
partitions as well, then it looks like you are going to have to look at the
drive with rescuept or gpart.  It sounds like maybe you partitioned with
PQMagic to start with and then tried doing it with fdisk.  I have heard that
there can be problems when you don't stick with the same partitioning tool.
Perhaps that is what happened here.

Anita