Peter Vollebregt writes: > 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 > ____________________________________________________
Do follow the above advice. DON'T PANIC!. When you got to the partitioning bit in the Mandriva install did you try altering the SUSE partition and did you write the changes to disk?. If not then try booting from the SUSE boot/ install disk and try to recover the SUSE partitions. Then back up your personal stuff. What is on the other disk, you don't say weather is data or an outher operating system. Was it mounted by SUSE? Did the Mandriva install read it when you where at the partitioning section registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up ! --------------------------------------------- Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
