I managed to remember the partition table. I had / swap and /home My home was in reiserfs fs. Now I've rewritten the partition table. But I dont find reiserfs in known filesystem types (Id) Now I have hope in getting back the system. Could you email me asap., how to set fs id for reiserfs. I do find an id number related to ext2 and swap (82 and 83) but no id for reiserfs. TIA, anbu
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 03:35:40 +0000 (UTC) anbalagan <anbu@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
Hi, I did login to rescue mode and did fdisk /dev/hda
when I print the existing partions I get device Boot Start End Blocks Id system /dev/hda1 * 1 652 5237158 c windows 95 /dev/hda2 653 1222 4570529 5 extended /dev/hda5 ? 873 873 39 ff BBT .......... All this is for simple "defrag" in windows????????????????????
there should be someway to recover .....how??????
Well I'll bet your data is still there, don't do anything to disturb it yet. The data is still there, but linux can't find it.
The thing that is recommended by most experts, is to make a copy of your partition table, just in case this happens. You didn't ?
So your next option is to try to guess what your partition table was and recreate it. It looks like you have blocks 653 to 1222.
So you probably had a swap. Was the the swap the size of your ram? Was it before your root, or at the end of the disk? You could experiment with setting up what you remember were your root and swap.
Is that extended partition originally part of linux? Did you have more than C in windows? If not, your root and swap were probably /dev/hda3 and /devhda4, the trick is to get the start-end blocks right.
One trick you might try, is just to remove /dev/hda5 and change the patition type of /dev/hda2 to ext2 ( or whatever your type was). The reboot with rescue and see if you can mount it.
JUST DON"T FORMAT ANYTHING. You can play with the partition table all you want, and you won't lose data, as long as you don't format.
Stay calm.....try to remember everything...... Good luck.....
P.S. Get all MS crap off of your machine.
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