Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??
Hi All,
I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except
for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions.
I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition,
so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions
to FAT32. So, I booted into linux and used fdisk
to delete a partition(hda5). After deleting the
partition, when fdisk listed the partitions, it
had mysteriously deleted all other logical partitions
as well!! (except for swap space).
I have been doing some googling on this since morning
and havent been able to find anything. I have also
tried to use the "undelete" feature in Partition Magic.
But it returned an error and didn't go further.
Is there anything that I can do about it? I am particular
on this because, one of the partitions happen to be my
/home... :(
Following was the partition structure before I deleted
hda5.
+---+--------+-------+--------------------------------------------+
| | | |-----------+----+------+-----------+--------|
| | hda2 | hda3 | hda5 | 6 | hda7 | hda8 | hda9 |
| 1 | C: | / |/data(ext2)|swap|/home |/multimedia| /extra |
| | NTFS | ext2 | 9.8GB | |2.0GB | 10GB | 6.0GB |
| | 4.9GB | 5.0GB |-----------+----+------+-----------+--------|
+---+--------+-------+--------------------------------------------+
Partitions:
1 --- FAT16,DellUtility,30Mb
2 --- NTFS,WinXP Pro,4.9Gb
3 --- ext2, / ,5Gb
5 --- ext2, /data ,9.8Gb
6 --- swap, /swap ,512Mb
7 --- ext2, /home ,2.0Gb
8 --- ext2, /multimedia,10Gb
9 --- ext2, /extra ,6.0Gb
After deleting the partition, now all the logical partitions
show up as unallocated free space, except for swap!
-vikas
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