injury to partiton table??how to recover

farhan · 03-14-2003, 04:54 PM

i got 98 and rh 7.3 on my hardisk some thing went wrong ......grub error 23 ...........
i tried to install grub again but after booting from bootable cd it didnt find any linux padtiton ..............no partition table there.... fdisk /dev/hda... no partition??
nothing shown by df or fdisk -l..........
how to recover the etx 3 partiton table???
but when i booted from other hardisk in 98 i can see the fat32 partiton on the injured hardisk???isnt it azazing....now i want to recover the ext 3 partiton is ther any utility

rch · 03-15-2003, 08:27 PM

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Originally posted by farhan
i got 98 and rh 7.3 on my hardisk some thing went wrong ......grub error 23 ...........
i tried to install grub again but after booting from bootable cd it didnt find any linux padtiton ..............no partition table there.... fdisk /dev/hda... no partition??
nothing shown by df or fdisk -l..........
how to recover the etx 3 partiton table???
but when i booted from other hardisk in 98 i can see the fat32 partiton on the injured hardisk???isnt it azazing....now i want to recover the ext 3 partiton is ther any utility

well do you have the copy of the old partition table
it is always a good idea of backing up your partition table
(by copying the content of fdisk -u -l and fdisk -l in a paper
and redoing(repartitioning the table by fdisk when something happens)
don't worry though there is a utility called testdisk
which i am sure will come in handy in your case
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

solnul · 03-15-2003, 10:33 PM

I've used gpart to do this.

A copy of this and a CD- or floppy-based distro should get you your partitions back. After that, you'll have to get it booted, but the hard part will be over.

orange400 · 03-15-2003, 11:44 PM

Check to see if your hard rives are setup correctly in your BIOS

jasn7980 · 10-05-2003, 08:08 PM

well i think the most rigth solution to a problem with the partition table, and i mean a problem like partition table its gone! its the one that rch gave us: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html thank you very much!