Hi all, Recently a friend of mine bought a 40gig drive, that his bios couldn't detect. He was quite happy to run it in 33g mode for now, and partitioned his disk as follows with partitionmagic 7 for dos: 2gb - win98 - fat32 primary partition 4gb - win2k - ntfs primary extended partition: 8gb - linux - ext2 logical drive 18gb - data - fat32 logical drive 200mb - linux swap logical drive 6gb of empty space remains until he gets a new mobo (his current one's BIOS is the newest for it, and there's no space for a new IDE controller) This is roughly what my setup looks like, and it works fine. He installed win98 and win2k, then ran SuSE 8.0 setup. SuSE saw the 6gb open space and tried to make a swap partition in it. The the YAST2 hang. Upon rebooting, the 18gb data partition was gone. I ran partitionmagic to see if I could undelete it. pm told me the partition table was "bad." With hard drive mechanic I managed to restore the partition table, but the data partition was still gone. I read in one of the howtos that there is a way to ressurect a missing partition. Make a new one over it and then run a command (dumpe2fs or something like that) to rebuild the filesystem. This is only for ext2 though, so my question: Is there such a util for fat32? I tried all the disk utils included with SuSE 8.0 Pro, and only gpart saw the missing partition, but it wouldn't do anything more. Thanks Hans == Find businesses and have your business found: http://www.brabys.com
At 20:27 30-8-2002 +0200, H du Plooy wrote:
Hi all,
Recently a friend of mine bought a 40gig drive, that his bios couldn't detect. He was quite happy to run it in 33g mode for now, and partitioned his disk as follows with partitionmagic 7 for dos:
2gb - win98 - fat32 primary partition 4gb - win2k - ntfs primary extended partition: 8gb - linux - ext2 logical drive 18gb - data - fat32 logical drive 200mb - linux swap logical drive
6gb of empty space remains until he gets a new mobo (his current one's BIOS is the newest for it, and there's no space for a new IDE controller)
This is roughly what my setup looks like, and it works fine. He installed win98 and win2k, then ran SuSE 8.0 setup. SuSE saw the 6gb open space and tried to make a swap partition in it. The the YAST2 hang.
Upon rebooting, the 18gb data partition was gone. I ran partitionmagic to see if I could undelete it. pm told me the partition table was "bad." With hard drive mechanic I managed to restore the partition table, but the data partition was still gone.
I read in one of the howtos that there is a way to ressurect a missing partition. Make a new one over it and then run a command (dumpe2fs or something like that) to rebuild the filesystem.
This is only for ext2 though, so my question:
Is there such a util for fat32? I tried all the disk utils included with SuSE 8.0 Pro, and only gpart saw the missing partition, but it wouldn't do anything more.
I dld a prog once for this purpose, but after all I did not have to use it (so no experience). It claims to do what you need, it is called testdisk: "TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in recovering lost partitions." Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org http://www.cgsecurity.org/ L1
Thanks Hans
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Ranish Partition manager ? Comes with XOSL (eXtended OS Loader), a, IMHO , very good bootmanager. Leen de Braal wrote:
At 20:27 30-8-2002 +0200, H du Plooy wrote:
Hi all,
Recently a friend of mine bought a 40gig drive, that his bios couldn't detect. He was quite happy to run it in 33g mode for now, and partitioned his disk as follows with partitionmagic 7 for dos:
2gb - win98 - fat32 primary partition 4gb - win2k - ntfs primary extended partition: 8gb - linux - ext2 logical drive 18gb - data - fat32 logical drive 200mb - linux swap logical drive
6gb of empty space remains until he gets a new mobo (his current one's BIOS is the newest for it, and there's no space for a new IDE controller)
This is roughly what my setup looks like, and it works fine. He installed win98 and win2k, then ran SuSE 8.0 setup. SuSE saw the 6gb open space and tried to make a swap partition in it. The the YAST2 hang.
Upon rebooting, the 18gb data partition was gone. I ran partitionmagic to see if I could undelete it. pm told me the partition table was "bad." With hard drive mechanic I managed to restore the partition table, but the data partition was still gone.
I read in one of the howtos that there is a way to ressurect a missing partition. Make a new one over it and then run a command (dumpe2fs or something like that) to rebuild the filesystem.
This is only for ext2 though, so my question:
Is there such a util for fat32? I tried all the disk utils included with SuSE 8.0 Pro, and only gpart saw the missing partition, but it wouldn't do anything more.
I dld a prog once for this purpose, but after all I did not have to use it (so no experience). It claims to do what you need, it is called testdisk: "TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in recovering lost partitions." Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org http://www.cgsecurity.org/
L1
Thanks Hans
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