Deboo ^ wrote:
I was already wared about such a thing and that's why I did this small trial. But now I am stuck what to do to get the data back ... other than by getting a newer hard drive ...which would be hard on the pocket for me.
Again, attempting to duplicate a problem like this is problematic at best. I still think the fastest way to resolve the problem is direct examination of the disk, with a good disk editor. If I understand you correctly and your problem is not being confident of the fdisk -l output, then I would think the next step is to simply confirm everything you think you know about the problem by looking at the disk itself. This will enable you to verify what you suppose to be the correct partition table parameters. Then it should be safe to just fdisk the correct parameters and try to mount the drive read-only.