Hi all (sorry for the double posting here and at Prolinux)
Finally ditched 98SE and did a clean install of 2K (on my first hard drive) - no problem. Then started to do some housekeeping - this involved my first hard drive (ATA/(E)IDE), the second hard drive (SATA) and my external (Firewire) drive. Somewhere along the line the gremlins got to work and I now have two problems.
I moved a complete (humongous) folder from the external drive to a logical drive in the extended partition on the first hard drive. I also renamed the FAT32 partition/volume on the second hard drive. After restarting I found the problems:
(i) the partition table on the second hard drive is completely trashed. This is where my linux partitions were and of course the GRUB loader failed. I had to use FDISK /MBR so that at least I could start 2K from the first drive.
(ii) the folder that I moved is, understandably, not visible on the external drive but neither is it present where I supposedly moved it to.
I think I can find some undelete software to recover at least most of the lost folders and files but I am having trouble finding anything that will work properly in restoring/recovering the partition info on the second hard drive (it had one extended partition taking up the entire drive and this partition contained two ext3 partitions and one FAT32 partition).
The software(s) that I have tried (Partition Magic, qtparted, gparted, ptdd and Acronis Recovery Expert) either cannot recognize any partitions to recover or display a (proposed) partition layout which is quite different from that I am trying to recover).
So - can anybody recommend some really good partition recovery software that runs under either Windows or Linux (I do have the Linux "System Rescue CD").
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