How do I fix a deleted partition table with NTFS and ext3 partitions?
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How do I fix a deleted partition table with NTFS and ext3 partitions?
I installed a new distro and used lilo instead of grub. Thought I would try it out. I booted into my new install and was happy till I needed to get back into windows. Disk error.
I read a bit about it and found that if I used windows recovery it may fix the problem so I could get back into windows. Then I could fix the lilo to boot into linux via a live cd.
That is not what happened. I think that since the dual boot was on the same physical hard drive I replaced the partition table.
Now I can't boot to any OS on the drive. I want to recover data in my storage partition.
I have read about many ways to do this but am a little hesitant to do so because they seem to deal with only ntfs or Linux partitions. not different file systems on the same drive.
Any resources and/or comments would be greatly appreciated!
Before you do anything, get a Linux liveCD booted, and issue "fdisk -l" (as root/sudo) and post it here.
That'll give you (us) a better idea of the state of the partition table.
I read up on the link to the thread posted eqariler. I found out that gparted has testdisk on it. So I used testdisk and and recovered the partitions except for my old windows xp partition.
So I was able to get my information off of the storage partition. To do that I used a live CD and an external hard drive.
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