hugglebear
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Posted: July 04 2006,08:39 |
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Hi, it seems as though we have the same problem.
I have only just discovered Linux and am beside myself with excitement at the possibility of taking my OS & Data around with me to use where I choose.
Then I think "What If I can save the Live CD .iso onto the hard drive and fool the computer into thinking it's seeing a CD drive...."
Well, you guys at dsl pretty much got that covered too!
I charged ahead with a frugal install and answered all questions to proceed further and decided to install to hda2. I chose that as I had already partitioned the drive with XP and the 1 GB fat32 partition I had prepared for dsl seemed, I thought, to be physically located directly behind the C:winxp partition.
I suppose what I thought is now irrelevant because ALL partitions after C: and the 1gig fat32 partition, have been wiped beautifully clean and is now seen by Partition Magic as Unallocated space!
I think I overwrote my data (NTFS) with the ext.2 file system that Linux uses, and this is where our common ground lies as I believe you may have done the same. Or something similar!
If my analysis is correct, then the solution lies in the question “Can data be recovered from a partition that has been overwritten with a different file system?"
I think our data is lost, but I'll leave judgment to the experts....Gentlemen (and Ladies), it's time too see how clever and inventive you really are!!!
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