*If* you have a hardcopy output of your partition table, you can use
fdisk to re-create the identical table and most likely the data itself
is ok.
I have done this successfully before.
If you don't have a hardcopy output, you can try to remember it;
otherwise, I hope you made backups frequently.
max wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I seem to have lost my linux partitions from my laptop. I had
> Mandrake 7.1 installed on hda5 to hda10 with windows on hda1, the windows
> partition is ok (hence me writing this in outlook). On booting up LILO
> loaded but only displayed 'LI', so I rebooted with a dos disk and ran 'fdisk
> /mbr' which fixed the windows partition. I then booted off the Mandrake disk
> and tried to mount the linux partitions but it couldn't find them, on
> running fdisk in linux it only reported hda1, hda2 (which wasn't there
> before) and hda5 (which it couldn't mount). I have run out of ideas on how
> to fix this so I was hoping someone on this list could help.
>
> Thanks
>
> Max
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