On 12/1/06, KJ Tsanaktsidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I did something similar recently lol. I hope this works for you...
Firstly, DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO THIS DISK UNTILL YOU MAKE A BACKUP
it would be a VERY good idea if you could borrow an iPod of a friend
or something. Otherwise, you could probably do something over a
network.
Do something like this on a livecd
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/ipod/a_file
or use a network share for of if you have to.
Oh and btw i hope your disk is pretty small...
Now...
First, you'll need BartPE, which is basically a windows liveCD. You'll
need an existing windows instalation handy somewhere though.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Boot BartPE, then run this from a floppy or something...
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/TestDisk-Download-20124.html
It should help you recreate your partition table
Hope that works
KJ
On 12/1/06, Herman Gerritsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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Thanks already,
I have tried writing my 30 GB disk to my desktop computer using "dd"
But my network is only 10 mbit, so that was gonna take some 8 hours...
And I didn't really know what to do with the big file actually.
But any way I found some other interresting programs:
gpart (guess partition dont mess it up with Gparted which is a
partition program)
It can be found (http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/)
but it doesn't seem to guess my extended partions correctly :( So that
didn't work for me
testdisk can be found (http://freshmeat.net/projects/testdisk/)
This program is not flawless aswell (and like me...) but it does
detect the extended partions correctly. I could choose some of the
partitions for recovery, as long as they don't overlap each other.
(the next partition seems to start at the same cilinder the previous
one ended)
So it worked for me. Right now I am backing up my files and i am
almost ready to start over :)
This testdisk seems the same test disk you mentioned, but from
freshmeat you can get one that works easily from the LFS-livecd
So i could do without the windows livecd
Thanks for your help, hopefully this may help you in the future some
time... although it would be better to have backups..
Herman Gerritsen
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