Yes!!! I managed to recover the partiton 100%!!!
Thanx a lot to Ghane and Leo for their valueable inputs.
I had to do it manually by adding a new partiton at the *exact* same position
(start and end sectors) using fdisk.
And was I /happy/ or what when I saw the results of an ls after mounting the
newly edited partition table.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 12:40:37PM +0800, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> The important part is the *exact* start and end cylinders. If you goof
> up, you die ;-)
I'm happy to be alive :-)
> Vipul Mathur wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > In a spate of bad luck, I ended up deleting one of my FAT32 data partitions
> > (logical). Now I am desparately trying to recover it (with data!)
> > I have the exact partitioning information (starting, ending cylinders) so I
> > hope just creating a new partition in fdisk should recover all the data.
> > But I need confirmation of this before I try! HELP!!!
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Cheerio!
,_, Vipul Mathur
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