Hi there,

I have made a stupid mistake and hope not all is lost...

I had installed a working lfs-6.2 with lots of blfs programs installed...
But I had to install Win XP pro aswell, I wanted a dual boot.
But windows kept hanging  just after boot up from cd.
I figured it was something with the way linux partions the disk.

So I accidentily gave the following command from LFS... :

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

And Yes the bootup from the windows cd worked...
But I discovered all partions were gone so I broke off the
installation of Win XP.

My partition table was something like this:

/dev/hda1 /boot (16 MB)
/dev/hda2 (supposed to become windows) (6GB)
/dev/hda3 Swap (512 MB)
/dev/hda4 (extended)
/dev/hda5 / (4GB)
/dev/hda6 /home (256MB)
/dev/hda7 / (of second installation 4GB)
/dev/hda8 /usr/src (also second installation 8GB)
/dev/hda9 /storage (3GB)

It was all on my laptop. So i dont have some way to interface my disk
to mij desktop computer.
I do not have a external usb disk as well.
So I wonder if it is possible te retrieve some parts of the disk onto
other parts of the disk.

I would like to restore /dev/hda9 and /dev/hda5
If someone knows how to do this, preferrebly with the LFS-live cd. I
would love to know

Thanks already
Herman Gerritsen
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