On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, murph wrote: > Try the poorly-named "testdisk" to see if it can get any of the old > partition information. I've had good luck with recovering > accidentally-partitioned disks. so far, basic usage of "testdisk" is showing me just the two small partitions at the front of the disk, but now i'm in some sort of scan mode, "Analyse cylinder", so i'm just letting it run ... oooooh ... suddenly sees a new Linux partition, and still scanning, up to 61% so i'm feeling optimistic ... ooh, and another alleged linux partition ... this will clearly take a while so i think i'll go for lunch and check back later. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org