Re: Recovering lost partitions
You could try deleting the partition and try to restore the original
format. as long as the file tables haven't been over written, you should
be able to recover most of your data if you have used mke2fs on the data
area you have deleted you will be most likely out of luck Remember that
the size of the original deleted partion, as well as the type should be
made the same.
On 26 Jan 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I made a BIG mistake. Assuming that fdisk -l partition numbers and
> parted partition numbers would be identical, I happily deleted two of my
> disk partitions. One of them was the wrong one. Here's how my partition
> table USED to look:
>
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 3074.941 primary ntfs boot
> 2 3074.941 14692.258 primary ext3
> 4 14692.258 43974.799 extended lba
> 5 14700.103 22967.929 logical fat32 lba
> 6 22967.960 23101.281 logical linux-swap
> 7 23101.312 28223.569 logical fat32
> 8 28223.600 43974.799 logical fat32
>
> and here's what it looks like now:
>
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.031 3074.941 primary ntfs boot
> 2 3074.941 14692.258 primary ext3
> 4 14692.258 43974.799 extended lba
> 5 14700.103 22967.929 logical fat32 lba
> 6 22967.960 23101.281 logical linux-swap
> 7 23101.312 28223.569 logical fat32 lba
>
> I managed to rescue partition 7 using parted rescue, however that
> partition was empty to begin with. The one that I REALLY need is 8, and
> it doesn't seem to want to come back. This is exactly what I've done
> since deleting the partition:
>
> resized 4 to 12692.258 - 23101.281
> resized 4 to 12692.258 - 43974.799
> rescued 7
>
> Since parted won't rescue it for me, how do I go about rescuing it
> myself? Are there any tools that can do the job? TIA.
>
> -Alex
>
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