2013/5/5 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:44:11PM +0000, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. > for > > some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying on > > sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during > recovery > > its diskpart must have deleted the information about the 10th partition > on > > the disk, containing my main Gentoo system. Recovery failed, but > > sysrescuecd still works :) > > > > Now I'm concerned about the rescueing of the partition on the SSD, is it > > the same way as on HDDs and are the same memory-parts of the SSD used? Or > > is the partiton gone forever? And when I recreate a partition, will the > PV > > with the data still be there and readable? > > You could try Testdisk[1]. It may help. The data on a SSD is not > necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using > the same memory cells as the old one. Even if it is, you'd lose any > information about directories or files (names, dates, accessrights and > so on). > You should definitly try to minimize writes (ideally there would be > none) since they can corrupt data. For a HDD I'd advise to create a copy > using dd but from my understanding of SSD technology it's not > guaranteed to copy the right (now unused marked) blocks. > If you can't recover the old partition information I'd say you lost your > data unless you are willing (and there's no guarantees either) to pay > substantial amounts of money to specialised services (substantial as in > most likely >> 1000 EUR). > > WKR > Hinnerk > > > [1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk >
Thanks for the input. I ensured that there is no write after I noticed the partition was missing. I try what I can now, and I'm sure its gonna be a long night -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Randolph Maaßen
