I had to do this about five years ago for a user. I used the tools on Tom's Root Disk to recreate the partitions and then the FAT tables, but we managed almost a full recovery of all the files (not much fragmentation).
I can't remember exactly what I did... I do remember using an app that would create the partitions non-destructively and that let me explore them for data. In that way I zeroed in on the actual partition info. The app might have been called "partd" or "gpart" In anycase, try this link: http://www.lissot.net/partition/partition-6.html On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 08:52, uzoma nwosu wrote: > I installed Fedora Core 2 last night on my deskstop. And in haste (it > crashed during install the first time--and yes, I did check images > before burning them), I think left all of my drives checked on the > "remove all linux filesystems" option. Whenever I try to mount > /dev/hdb1 it gives me the error that that "partition is either > non-existent or swap device". > > So the question is, am I boned or can I fsck it to recover my > partition? If can use fsck what superblock should tell it to use? Any > other solutions? As far as I understand, all fedora has done is wipe > the partition table and the data is still there, correct? I'm trying to > research this online but am not confident enough to be messing around > with an already fragile situation. > > Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. > > Uzoma -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
