�/� Ric Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ������:
YES I DID examine the display, it did not
say which partition was what, all I know
is that it is the third partition, /boot
/ then /home, but it was not displayed that
way because it did not even TRY to read
the drive just the damnb partition table,
I want something that will scan the entire drive,
find the partition barriers, and then re-write
the partition table, for your info, I DID
study the literature and I DID NOT UNDERSTAND
it, it DID NOT TELL ME what I NEEDED TO DO,
sorry but I am handicapped
and I need EXTRA Help with some things.
All it did was display a blank drive and
I know that is not what it is, it said
the entire 20Gb thing was blank,
but you can't blank an entire drive
in less than one second, you would have to
have a special utility that would go over the
whole thing and set the data to all zeros,
when a partition is erased, it just erases
the "card catalogue" that tells where
all th! e books in the library are.
I'm sorry if you don't know the answer,
its ok to not know something, don't be ashamed
if you don't know everything, no one does,
all you gotta say is "I don't know" and I will
ask someone who does, no problem.
If anyone else knows, or would like to try,
please I would appreciate some input.
If needed, I will email in again and
try to re-state the problem in a way that
can be understood, I'm sorry I have bad
communication skills, I will take as long
as I need here until I get the information
I need, then I will drop the subject
when my drive can once again be accessed,
and thank all those who helped or at least
tried.
Thanks to alex for at least trying.
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If I understood correctly you need to find a way so your Linux-box can read your lost partition. If you already have a windows partition */mnt/windows, /mnt/win_c or whatever, boot to windows and use Partition Magic 7.0 to scan your partition from windows and reformat it into ext2 which is the Linux standard filesystem. When you do so successfully boot in Linux and from Mandrake Control Center or from picoing /etc/fstab add a new mount point for instance /var. If this is not the problem, then (pay attention to this), login as root look if you already have a /home file in the basic catalogue. If you do have, open the Kdiskfree and look at the mounted partitions. Dismount /home. Go to the Linux Control Center and mount your unseen so far partition as /var or as /home. If you mount it as /home you wont be able to see your data stored in the previous /home that you have dismounted from Kdiskfree even if you mount it again.
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