Suse linux killed my partitions!? Data recovery possible?
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Suse linux killed my partitions!? Data recovery possible?
Athlon 64 3400+
1 gb RAM
1x 160gb Maxtor hdd
1x 250gb Western Digital hdd
1x External 320gb SATA Seagate running off usb
I installed SUSE 10.1 x86 64 on my computer last night. I first tried to install it on my external, resizing the ntfs partition by 100gb and installing in the new free space, but it repeatedly failed so I gave up on that and tried on my local 160gb drive. I let it have 60gb and windows was resized to 94gb or something like that. Well now I try to boot windows and it gives a blue screen partway into booting up saying it can't mount the partition. I looked at the partitions again with the SUSE install disc and it shows a 9.1gb NTFS partition, the linux swap, root, and the 60gb linx partition, but it also shows an extra 80 gb extended linux partition??? What has it done? When I go into resize on any partition it shows the windows partition as normal still (60gb used, 34gb free)??? Has it screwed up the partitions or just the partition table? Does anyone know if/how I can recover my data? Also I looked at the 320gb and its partitions have been corrupted similariy by the installer..
Any help appreciated, I've got all my graduation pictures on that drive and it would really hurt to lose them, but I guess it's not looking good.
Thanks,
Eric
I don't use Suse as my experiences trying to install it have been all bad.
Even so, I would expect that only the partition table has been mangled, not the data.
So ... DON'T allow any writes to those disks - that includes any further attempts at resizing. Go get a Knoppix disk and try testdisk - this usually allows you to recreate the partition table correctly.
If not, the same site has a recovery tool for photo recovery. Try that as a last resort.
In addition, microsoft's chkdsk does miracles on ntfs partitions. If you fix the partition table and you still have problems, try it. You will find it in the recovery console of the windows installation cdrom.
Try this utility Stellar Phoenix Linux - Data Recovery Software is file & partition recovery utility that helps in recovering all important data lost after accidental format, virus problems, software malfunction, file/directory deletion, or even a sabotage. It Provides Partition recovery from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems. Performs NTFS recovery on all IDE, EIDE and SCSI disk devices.
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