Re: corrupted partion table
xfornavn xetternavn wrote:
>Anyway, after formatting the first partion from fat32 to ntfs, and rebooting after the install process hang for 10 minutes, the partion table is corrupted. Luckily I have a printout for it, so I know the exact cylinder each partion start and end. The hope is that only the partion table and the first 5 Gig that was formatted ntfs are touched. I don't know this yet.
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>The question is, if I run fdisk to redefine the partion table (from a bootable potato cd), will fdisk only touch the sectors where the partion table is installed, or will it wipe out the data on the partions as well.
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>The hope is to be able to recover data.
once you redefine the partition table (via deleting an existing one)
you risk wiping out the data in the partitions as well. I don't know
exactly if you resize one via fdisk (redefining the size there some
times doesn't wipe the data, sometimes it does, most probably it will
also wipe out the data). If you badly need the data in your NTFS
partition, good thing linux can read that part (as long as that
functionality is compiled either statically or as kernel modules)
so you can copy from that partition to recover the data.
Anyway, just reinstall your other "OS" using it's fdisk. after
"optimizing" from FAT32 to "new technology" filesystem, there you can
install a linux partition using linux' cfdisk. should work.
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