On Mon, 28 May 2001, Penguin wrote:
> When I tried to create an iso image using xcdroast it tried to write on
> the extended partition /dev/hda2 ??? and it threw some error at me and
> asked me if u want to format ???? I pressed cancel. Then I worked for
> around one hour. Than when I restarted the machine voila
If it has overwriten your partition theres nothing much you can do.
You can boot from a cd and try to mount the visible partitions one by one
and see which ones are ok. After ummounting those, do a fsck to verify
that they are really fine. So when you install linux you can keep those
partitions unformatted. If the /home has survived, thats a lot. I wasnt so
lucky.
BTW is your partition table ok. what does cfdisk say ?
> When I ran dos fdisk it showed me only the primary partition as FAT32 and
> the extended partition without the file sytem info. I had two FAT32
> partitions in the extended partition along with linux partitions. It seems
> like everything is gone. I am lost.
you can try re-creating the extended partition giving the exact size.
Hope you are able to recover something. These crashes are awfull.
-- sreangsu
p.s ( they say norton disk doctor can fix some partition errors, if you
can atleast recreate the extended partition, you should be able to salvage
something from its underlying logical partitions )
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