How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls
Hey ppl,
I've done something real stupid and i really really
really need your help.
I have a Debian 3.0 system using an ext3 partition. I
recently added Mandrake 9.0 in a different partition
just to check it out. Recently I noticed a performance
degradation on my Debian system.....on further
investigation I learnt that it wasn't using the Swap
space although I could see it in my fstab (or thought
i could anyways). Since I've been having a series of
power outages i thought from my ass that maybe the
Swap partition had gotten corrupted somehow and
decided to do a mkswap from within Debian to reinit
the swap.....except i didn't realize that since I
installed Mandrake my disks partition system had
changed and wat was earlier the swap was now my main
Debian ext3 partition :(
Mkswap started spewing out msgs with an EXT3....bad
directory....and a few seconds in i realized that
somethings wrong and i did a hard reboot.
Now if I try to boot into Debian I get a kernel panic.
When booted into Mandrake, fdisk still shows the
partition as a Linux partition with id 83.......if I
try to mount this partition i get a bad fs, bad
superblock or too many mounted filesystems msg. If i
try doing a swapon /dev/hda6 (hda6 is or was my
ext3)just to see if i can load it as swap, swapon
doesn't complain :( Under Windows Partition Magic
still shows the partition as Linux
Guys I really really really need the data on my
partition (and preferably the entire system up and
running).....i know i know it ain't fair for u guys to
be bearing the brunt of trying to solve my stupidity
:( but I'd really appreciate it :(
Do u think something like gpart would help....but
since the partition still shows up and it's the data
within that i'm after I dunno :(
Pls help.
Bye for now
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