Re: Help! partition table!
Whoops...
That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your
last one?
A partition itself can be found again when it disappears from the
disklabel, but this is different.
AFAIK, the data (or probably 99% of it) is still there, on your
partition, but there's no filesystem to tell you where to look.
If you're talking about /etc/whatever files, a way of finding the data
is to read the raw partition and filter out something you remember.
Something like 'cat /dev/hda2 |grep [whatever]' might give you some
answers. It takes time and gives only one line...
Someone else might know the tools better that I do.
But I strongly believe it's much easier to reinstall and remember how
you configured it.
Also, before you do anything, you might want to listen to other people's
ideas too, first. :-)
hth,
/johan
Hugo Ideler wrote:
My disk layout:
hda1: Windows XP 10 GB
hda2: Debian 3.0 40 GB
I've been happily using debian 3.0 woody for 2 weeks now. I decided it
was time for an adventure and decided to install sarge unstable to my
scsi drive. I booted the cdrom, and had fdisk write the partition
table to my scsi drive. then it promted for a disk to install to, it
listed two paritions/disks. I *thought* this was my scsi disk, but it
turned out to be my IDE disk. I choose disk/partition 2 (it was
labeled something like /dev/discs0/part1/) and had 'default' appended.
I got the message "writing inodes..." and saw my IDE led activity
going red and my scsi jaz drive was showing no activity. I
immeadiately noticed my mistake and hit the power off button.
Then I tried booting up, lilo started fine, and I selected Linux. it
booted up to the level of: loading NFS, mounting root on 02:03...
kernel panic failure, or something in that style, either way I figured
my linux partition was crapped up.
I am now in my Windows XP system. Please, I beg you, help me recover
my linux files, I spent soo much time configuring it all and finally
getting it to work, and will promise never to do something stupid as
this again. :-/
please oh please.
--Azaghal.
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