Ouch, and double ouch, Tyler. Me thinks you're in pretty jdeep here. There's not much you can do if your partition is actually scrambled. If only a piece of it is, you might have some success. I do recall there are Linux tools for working on restoring partitions, but I don't have any to recommend. I'd do a Google search for "partition tool Linux." Of course, your data is all still there. The problem is that without a partition table, you don't know where there is, or what any particular byte belongs to. Tyler writes: > From: Tyler <tspivey8 at asmodean.net> > > sorry for this long email. > > hello. i recently (yesterday) ruined my partition table. > > i was running caldera opendos on my small swap-turned-dos partition, > and tried to set it active. told it to restore boot record, > but it was misnamed, and totaled my partition table, i think. > i know my data is not lost - i hope -, and am wondering what i can do to restore it. > the equipment i have available is: > 1 386, had a dectalk pc, can always bring that out of my newer pc and put it back, i will do that anyway. > a windows pc, with the dectalk pc moved to it - and the pc that ran linux. > those two pcs - windows and linux - are the same, with a removable hd for the os and a linux data disk with a tiny dos partition for winblows crap. > the partition table of my linux disk is something like: > hda1: xx mb ext2 > hda2: 256 mb swap-turned-fat > hda3: rest of disk, linux / > how can i restore my partition table? i forgot the size of the first partition though. i think it was either > 20 or 50 mb, and this is around a 5 gig drive. > i have avoided writing to the new c drive on that disk - since it might get ruined because dos thinks it's in the wrong place. > loadlin didn't work, but i didn't have my full kernel. i'll try to download one off slackware's site today, if i get a chance. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
