-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 | | Hey all | | I have got a HUGE problem I'm hoping someone can help. | | i am running suse 9.0 (kde3.2) on an ext3 partion. I was dual booting on | the 60gig hard drive with 25gig for suse 1gig for swap and winxp on the | rest. I decided that I no longer needed the windows stuff so I had a | friend who had ghost 8.0. I figured I could have him ghost the partition | ~ for me, I could reformat the HD and remove windows. I was with him | during the imaging, and it seemed to go fine. I reformted the drive and | had him restore the image. The old partition was 25gig in which 13gig | was used. After the repartition I had about 50gigs (He left the image on | a fat32 fat partition) Then the s**t hit the fan!!! When we restored the | image it seemed fine until I tried to reboot, I knew GRUB would be gone | so I booted with my original boot disk into install and then repair | system, expert->repair boot loader. It said I didn't have a root drive.. | Hmm.. When I ran the scan it said my ext2 was corrupt. So I booted a | rescue linux and ran e2fsck -fy. after about 15 minutes and more errors | then I could count it finally exited. and said there was a .6% | noncontigous. Unfortunatly my friend is an expert on windows and not | linux, so he doesn't know what to do. I searched the archives and google | and couldn't find anything (I could have missed it of course) The ghost | documentation and knowledge base aren't any help.. I will trying again | tomorrow. | | Please help me rescue my suse... any ideas, pointers or anything would | be appreciated... | Well thanks for the help.. I was at least able to save my code and some of the files. Most of them were corrupted. When I ran e2fsck on the affected partition it put 90% of the back up in the lost&found. So I rescued what I could from the home directory and formatted the rest. I am in the process of doing a complete reinstall.. Oh well it was a nice try. I guess with friends like I do who ..... ya know the rest ;^( Maybe I'll try the 2.6 kernel... Thanks agian.. - -- Adolph & Sharon Weidanz S/V Time To Paws 43' 1978 Endeavour Ketch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFAgwaKlC+PSm9+eB0RAt45AJ9Lg1cxc45jFONsSs/T7Dc3YIB08ACgpdbS KPK5xdmadh10GCYb3HSIIcg= =54pP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----