On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Where do you find this Diskdrake?
I don't know the name of the package. Looking on the
CD, I don't see anything obvious. I just booted off the
CD as if I were going to install. The "drake-fdisk" (or
whatever it is) said something to the effect that the
partition info was hosed, and would I like to overwrite
it with data from a back-up partition data-block. With
some trepidation, I clicked "sure," and after that,
regular linux fdisk could see the drive again, and I was
able to recover most of the hard drive. IIRC, one of the
partitions wasn't recoverable, but the important ones
(especially /home & /backup) were...
> Did linux fdisk not see this disk at all,
> something like "Unable to open /dev/hda"?
Yup, something like that.
- Steve
