I'm repeating my post to linux-il here:
Get yourself a Knoppix 3.3 (or later) CD. Boot from the CD, and use gpart. It's not a graphical interface, as one may think, but a command-line tool that recognizes the partitions on the hard disk. If your partition table is wrecked anyhow, you may use it's feature of setting up the partition table according to what it finds. Despite the use-at-your-own risk warning, it works well.
See the gpart docs (google etc).
Good luck, Eli
Dita Jacobovitz wrote:
We have a Linux machine (IBM ThinkCentre) with Red Hat 9.0 installed which suddenly failed to boot. It was working fine before. We have tried 'linux rescue' from an installer disk and when we type e2label /dev/hda2 we get an error 'Bad magic number in super-block' which We think it indicates that something has gone wrong with the main disk partition. We would like to recover the data on the partition instead of reformatting since it contains some important data.
If you have any ideas please relpy to us.
Thanks Dita.
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