| eggoz |
09-05-2006 10:52 AM |
Recoving Partition
I have accidently deleted my linux partition. I ran mkfs.ext3 by accident. It only ran for a second, but it was enough time to wipe it out. I used dd to copy my drive over to a spare one. I ran testdisk and here is where I am at. If I let it analyze the disk it will eventually find it, but I get an error message:
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TestDisk 5.8, Data Recovery Utility, May 2005
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sda - CHS 77520 16 63 - 38154 MB
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection, OS limitation...
The following partition can't be recovered. The harddisk seems too small!
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D Linux 32061 1 1 77570 14 29 45873920 [/]
[ Quit ]
ReiserFS 3.6 with standard journal, need recovery, 22399 MB
Fdisk output. Yes, I have a primary partition, and then an extended with my linux and swap in it. Fdisk -l:
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Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 31215 15732328+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 31216 77520 23337720 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 31216 32010 400648+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 32011 77520 22937008+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 31216 77520 23337720 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 31216 32010 400648+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 32011 77520 22937008+ 83 Linux
And finally, the excert from the /log /dump from testdisk:
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ReiserFS Marker at 32061/1/1
recover_rfs
block_count=5734240
block_size=4096
D Linux 32061 1 1 77570 14 29 45873920 [/]
ReiserFS 3.6 with standard journal, need recovery, 22399 MB
D Linux 32061 1 1 77570 14 29 45873920 [/]
ReiserFS 3.6 with standard journal, need recovery, 22399 MB
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=32317551, size=45873920, end=78191470, disk end=78140160)
I am not sure what I can do at this point. Any help would be great. Thanks. |
