Marc schreef: > I have a machine with 2 hard drives. 1 hard drive that has Suse linux > installed on it, it used to have Mandriva 2006 on it but I decided to give > Suse a try for a while. The drive was configured with ext 3 partitions. > When I switched to Suse I changed to Riser partitions.I went to try and > reinstall Mandriva and and at the partitioning part of the installation I got > a error message saying that the partition table could not be read. I have a > lot of valuable data on this drive so I started to panic. Marc,
I cannot see what you have done exactly but there are some things that you should never do. 1) Panic 2) Not having backups (especialy when playing) This seems the time to become an expert instead od a newbie. Remember thate experts are those guys that made all the mistakes themselves already..... In the past i have solved an issue like this with parted in rescue mode (yes you can restore partitions!). see: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html Parted (or similar tools) should be started from another system or disk. Best use rescuecd (and look for more information also on this side): http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page The problem with panicking is that you do things that make impossible to restore so please study carefullly first. And at least you have lost it already so you only can improve on this.... To overcome situations like this in the future you could try to implement some of the stuff from here: http://www.whiteley.org/~bart/linux/multi-root-linux-install.html Greetings from one expert to another (sorry for joking), Peter ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
