Re: Recovering deleted partitions...

[Michael Dominok <michael.dominok@natural-computing.de>]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 17:57, Vikas B N wrote:
> Hello All,
<snip>
>  Now, I am very happy with this. But, there is only one issue.
>  Gpart has recognized my original partition table *almost* correctly.
> 
>  My grouse is with this part of the scan - 
> ----
>  Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(9585mb), offset(10158mb)
> ----
> 
>  this was the partition that I deleted using fdisk. And it was
>  certainly a logical partition inside the extended partition.
> 
>  So, I am left wondering what to do? Is it safe to let gpart 
>  write this to the partition table?
> 

There is a Partition-Rescue HOWTO available at
www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html
I think "3.2.3.1. Recovering partitions inside an extended partition" is
for you.
Not _that_ much but I HTH.

Michael

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