On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 05:55:47AM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > windows on it. The debian install crashed (something about libpopt), and > killed my partition table (dispite being past that in the installprocess). > > Does anyone have any hints on how to get it back? The data on the windows > partition has't changed, so hopefully it is just a case of recovering the > partition table and installing a new MBR.
Did you complete installing Debian? I hope you have lots more info that what you have given us. Do you know partition sizes (in cylinders preferably)? If so, boot off a rescue rescue disk (or the Debian CDs in rescue mode) and recreate a partition table using fdisk, with the appropriate partition sizes and types for each Windows and GNU/Linux partition as before. If you do not remember the partition sizes at all, then things are tougher -- you can use a disk editor to try searching through your disk. But then things might get ugly. -- Manoj Mathew (GPG: 1024D/4C2932EA) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
