jujusl
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Joined: Jan. 2006 |
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Posted: Jan. 12 2006,13:10 |
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Yesterday evening, I roughly switched off my computer (because of mouse trouble) running Ubuntu on my 2nd disk. When I switched off, all my partition table for disk 2 had disappeared ! Everything was probably lost
I tried a Mandriva rescue CD, but fdisk wasn't able to find anything. Then I used the partition recovery tools gpart and testdisk => nothing found. No more hope...
I tried to read my backup DVD, but Mandriva rescue CD could not read UDF format. That problem saved me !!
I decided to use a livecd, and the first one I found at home was DSL ; after boot, I tried to find my DVD drive. Browsing in the /mnt directory, I saw several hdbx mount points ! Could it be possible ?? I tried to mount these partitions, and YES I could see all my "lost" files !
I then used fdisk to check, and saw all my partition being recognised. After have backed up all my important files, I ran fdisk again, and wrote the partition table to disk. As it was using the swap partition, I got a warning message.
After reboot, same problem with finding partitions ; using Mandriva rescue CD, I could again see the partition with fdisk ; I wrote once again the partition table.
At reboot, everything got OK ; I could find again my Ubuntu with all files.
Thousands of thanks to DSL team and this GREAT small tool !!
Stéphane
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