Spiderman15
10-16-2003, 09:32 PM
Sorry to bother everyone with a stupid question but i deleted the partions and now i can't do anything! it starts to boot then has some kernel error and stops working. Any help would much be appriciated. thanks
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Suramya
10-16-2003, 10:07 PM
Reinstall the OS...
there is not much else you can do, unless you want a nice heavy paperweight on your desk :)
- Suramya
there is not much else you can do, unless you want a nice heavy paperweight on your desk :)
- Suramya
bwkaz
10-16-2003, 10:28 PM
If you have any OS that will boot, you can probably find partition rescue programs that will recreate the partition tables. I think that GNU parted has functionality to do that for you, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't run on Windows. You may be able to find tools for Windows, but I think you'd be better off trying to fix it in Linux, if possible.
When you deleted the partitions, all that happened was a couple of tables stored in a couple of special sectors on the disk got wiped out. So if you know where the partitions used to start and end, you could recreate the partition tables (I'm not sure fdisk would work for that, though, because I don't know whether it destroys the disk data when it creates a partition or not) and get them back.
When you deleted the partitions, all that happened was a couple of tables stored in a couple of special sectors on the disk got wiped out. So if you know where the partitions used to start and end, you could recreate the partition tables (I'm not sure fdisk would work for that, though, because I don't know whether it destroys the disk data when it creates a partition or not) and get them back.
adikgede
10-17-2003, 12:45 AM
I don't know of nor would I trust any recovery tools that used the ms windows environment to recover lost data on a Linux/Unix computer, but perhaps people working in data recovery know of such a tool.
As long as all you did was change the partition table, and not actually write any new data to the disk, it should be recoverable. The question is, is the value of the data worth the possible trouble you will have to go to to get it back.
If your computer has a bootable cdrom drive you can use that to run a cdrom based system such as Knoppix.
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqRescue
http://plug.linux.org.au/~steve/mbr.html
As long as all you did was change the partition table, and not actually write any new data to the disk, it should be recoverable. The question is, is the value of the data worth the possible trouble you will have to go to to get it back.
If your computer has a bootable cdrom drive you can use that to run a cdrom based system such as Knoppix.
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqRescue
http://plug.linux.org.au/~steve/mbr.html
Satanic Atheist
10-17-2003, 06:48 AM
Erm, did you MEAN to delete the partitions? Your post sounds like someone told you to do it, you did, and now what you were trying to achieve is damn well no way ever going to happen!
Unless there was some 70 gazillion word cutting-edge thesis or dissertation in there, I'd say goodbye to your data and start again. Other than that, don't try to reacreate the partitions (unless you REALLY know how they work) and send the disk off with next months pay-packet to a data recovery centre.
James
Unless there was some 70 gazillion word cutting-edge thesis or dissertation in there, I'd say goodbye to your data and start again. Other than that, don't try to reacreate the partitions (unless you REALLY know how they work) and send the disk off with next months pay-packet to a data recovery centre.
James
dysharmonic
10-17-2003, 08:12 AM
Originally posted by adikgede
[B]I don't know of nor would I trust any recovery tools that used the ms windows environment to recover lost data on a Linux/Unix computer, but perhaps people working in data recovery know of such a tool.
I ended up in a similar predicament recently w/ both my RHL 8 root and home partitions accidentally deleted!
Both were ext3, and to my relief, PartitionMagic 8 running in Windows 98, managed to recover my /home partition, however nothing could be done to the / partition. So it was a reinstallation, but I was lucky my personal files were intact.
[B]I don't know of nor would I trust any recovery tools that used the ms windows environment to recover lost data on a Linux/Unix computer, but perhaps people working in data recovery know of such a tool.
I ended up in a similar predicament recently w/ both my RHL 8 root and home partitions accidentally deleted!
Both were ext3, and to my relief, PartitionMagic 8 running in Windows 98, managed to recover my /home partition, however nothing could be done to the / partition. So it was a reinstallation, but I was lucky my personal files were intact.
Spiderman15
10-17-2003, 08:10 PM
thanks. i put in a boot disk with fdisk on it. recreated my partions. formated c: a reinstalled red hat linux 9 with what i wanted on it(iv been needing to format it anyways. thanks for the help.
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