Thanks, Gus. I guess your suggestion is my best chance, but apparently gpart works mainly with damaged primary partitions, not my missing extended partitions. Now I know why I should have copied my actual settings into a rescue disk, and not merely relied on the fact that I've got tomsrtbt and bootable Linux CDs! Better yet, I should have realised that although most of my data did not seem important enough to warrant backing up at the start, seemingly unrelated things do have a tendency to accrete into significance over six months. Well, I guess this gives me now an excuse to try out the latest version of SuSE Linux from the shops.... Joe --- Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 06:48:54AM -0700, Joe G > wrote: > > Any suggestions, please, before I finally give up > and > > delete my unsaved personal files? I believe my > > partition table is the corrupt part; before this > > happened, my wife had allowed Norton Utilities > from > > Win95 to "repair" a supposed change in my Master > Boot > > Record. > > have a look at "gpart" > > it'll look at the disk and guess the filesystems. > then rebuilds the > partition table for you. excellent program, very > fast, etc, etc. > > tho if you've messed with the disk too much, it may > be too far gone. > > > the gpart web page (i'll let you do the web search) > has statically > linked executables that you should be able to copy > onto a bootable > linux floppy. > > -- > - Gus > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
