Quoting "Alan Lord (News)" <[email protected]>: > On 25/01/10 08:56, javadayaz wrote: >> The only problem is i dont think the hard drive is mounted, even though >> fdisk -l does show it as /dev/sda.!! > > You do not want to mount it! > > The output of your fdisk -l command shows that there are no partitions > on /dev/sda so you can't mount it anyway. > > I'm not sure of the applications you'll need, but follow the advice of > previous posters: > > Boot from a LIVE CD and then install the system tools you need to try > and repair the disk. You *might* just need to re-create the partition > table for that drive. > > My first suggestion would be to download the System Rescue CD and try > some of the tools on that: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page > > (I tend to keep a recent copy of this tool lying around at all times). >
If it was me, and the data was important, then I'd be looking at doing a copy of the drive too just in case, maybe using dd to a file on an external hard drive. Better safe than sorry I say :-) Having done something similar a couple of times in the past I would also suggest maybe re-creating the partition table, although I think you're going to need some more assistance than can be provided on just the mailing list. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
