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LevelZero1

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Linux Partitions Gone!!
« on: 6 October 2002, 05:01 »
I was doing some partitioning with Mandrake's partition manager and I think a bit with dos' fdisk, I'm not sure exactly what I did, but the space my Linux partitions occupied disappeared  :eek: .  I read an article here:  Linux Partition-Rescue and it sounded very like my problem.. tried it but no joy.  Now I've just one big, empty Linux e2fs partition.. no separate /home, /usr etc. partitions.  Now I'm in WinDOZe and I got a program called R-Linux, its a data restorer, but I've just got a very long, unorganised list of unknown sectors, so I'm findin it very hard to get to and copy any files.  I've got some important stuff (docs etc.) on that partition that I really need..  any suggestions, anyone?    :(   (  :mad:  @ M$.. stuff like this has happened before.. winderz and/or dos fucking around with linux installations/partitions!!!)

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Linux Partitions Gone!!
« Reply #1 on: 6 October 2002, 12:51 »
i mean, im no M$ fanboy.. but .... dos's fdisk is very very unsafe...

wtf were you doing in there?

pkd_lives

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Linux Partitions Gone!!
« Reply #2 on: 6 October 2002, 21:53 »
Well here is the thing.

Last night I disassembled my PC and reconfigured the motherboard to run my processor at the right speed.

Unfortunately I went into windows first, because I knew how that would react to a change. I did not do what I thought, it altered my partitioning and reinstalled IE.

WTF.

So I went into Linux and got a Kernel panic.

I know not enough about linux, but I tried Recreating the MBR, and the resuce program crashed out with an abnormal exit.

Tried a few other things like reinstalling drivers. I tried to update through the install, and got 'whoops there is no Root partition'. Diskdrake confirmed this. The partitons were there but unlabelled.

So I ended up reinstalling the software (this is mandrake). I did an exact same install as I did last time.

What the hell it started up with most of my old settings. Even had the Peanut Linux Iso I had downloaded.

Not sure what happened? So if it's a last resort you could try something similar.
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