Thanks for the reply, I was able to rebuild the partition table with the tool parted, they have added a rescue function, which searches for intact file systems and then finds their sizes and confirms if you want to add that partition to your partition table, I was able to recovery everything just fine, thanks for the tips and pointers, and for replying, I wasn't sure if anyone had every performed such an elementary mistake before, or thats the way it seems it is. All is well again.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Nick Floersch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because you were not paying attention to partition sizes, you may need to > use some sort of recovery tool. If you know exactly what your partition > sizes were, you could use (c)fdisk again and create a new partition table > that was exactly the same as your old one - and then your system *might* > work again. This happened to me once a long time ago, and I was able to do > exactly that - reboot, recreate the partition table in fdisk, reboot, and > the system worked again. Having mucked up the partition table does not mean > the data that was/would/is in the now undefined partitions is gone, it just > means the computer has no reference for how to access it. > > If you use a tool to look at the raw data on your drive, you might still > see things, which is how a lot of serious data recovery programs work. > > But, it is at this point that I become fairly useless. I have not had to > recover a working system disk that ran Linux - OS/2, Windows, and NeXTStep, > yes, but for some reason I don't know how to handle this in Linux. > > I think the second-to-worst case would be that you had to run a data > recovery program such as OnTrack. There is this tool, which I have not used, > called TestDisk, which looks for partitions on the disk and compares against > the partition table for inconsistencies, allowing you to pick which to > use... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk > > The only encouragement I can give is that the most I have personally > learned about computers in the shortest time is when I break something and > have to fix it. Good luck! > > Nick > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts on behalf of David > Sent: Wed 8/13/2008 3:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: cfdisk and a live hdd > > So, I was going along repartitioning a new drive for a soon to be Gentoo > install. While inside of my current Ubuntu machine, I used cfdisk, didn't > pay attention to the partition sizes, and well I ended up partitioning the > drive that my current Ubuntu system is on. This is a very "noobish" > mistake, > I know, but I figure there has to be a way to fix it. From what I > understand, if I reboot the machine, it will probably not boot anymore > because the partition table that it is used to, doesn't exist anymore, it > is > a totally different one. Thanks in advance for helping a "noob" out. > > -- > I'd say the ultimate copy protection would be an awful, expensive product. > On the other hand, it doesn't seem to be working for the music industry... > ~Some Genius From /. > --- > David McClellan > -- I'd say the ultimate copy protection would be an awful, expensive product. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to be working for the music industry... ~Some Genius From /. --- David McClellan
