On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 20:20 +0530, rahimanuddin shaik wrote: > By some mistake, my laptop loaded with ubuntu 9.10 crashed and when i try to > recognise the same from a live cd, it is showing unknown partition, i have > very important data in that partition. What can i do? > what actually happened was power went off when i was running a manual fsck.
Well, use dd to copy your drive as is to some other location (perhaps an external hard-drive?). Then copy your partition table separately. Then try using testdisk or something. If that fails you can still try grepping your drive for the files (assuming they're text). Whatever you do, don't mess with what you have without backing up your drive as it is. Personally, I believe testdisk is your best bet. It's saved me from similar situations. -- Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
