"Deleted"? one of my dual boot partitions!!

[devils casper]

download testdisk. right click on downloaded tar.bz2 file and click on 'Extract here'.
this will create a testdisk-6.5 folder.
in terminal/konsole, gain root privileges ( su/sudo, or login as 'root' ), navigate to testdisk-6.5 -> linux folder.
execute this

./testdisk_static

select 'create' -- Proceed -- 'Intel' -- Analyse...
TestDisk will restore lost partitions and rewrite partition table.


Good Luck !
Casper

[frazelle09]

Thanks Casper! i'll give it a try and let you know what happens!!

Have a great day!

[frazelle09]

Wow, casper, that "recovery" was fast...!

Disk /dev/hda - 40 GB / 37 GiB - CHS 77545 16 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 20543 15 63 20708289[LAPRINCIPAL]
D Linux 20543 7 1 77535 15 63 57448503

The above is what i got after i did the Create, Proceed, Intel, Analyse.

Am i missing anything? Should one of the be the primary bootable partition?

i also got the error message that the number of heads was incorrect and that i could later change the number.

Have a great day and thanks!

P.S. 1 -- Since it gave me the option to try 255 heads instead of the 16, i tried that and it seems like it corrected the ending and starting block?, sector? or whatever as in below... This is what i "Wrote" to the partition table.

Disk /dev/hda - 40 GB / 37 GiB - CHS 4866 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 1288 254 63 20707722 [LAPRINCIPAL]
2 P Linux 1289 0 1 4864 254 63 57448440

What do you think?

[frazelle09]

Uh, in addition here is the new output of fdisk -l and df -h

LaGrandota:/home/steve/My Documents/Testdisk/testdisk-6.5/linux# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

LaGrandota:/home/steve/My Documents/Testdisk/testdisk-6.5/linux# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 28G 28G 360M 99% /
/dev/root 28G 28G 360M 99% /
/dev/root 28G 28G 360M 99% /dev/.static/dev
tmpfs 10M 588K 9.5M 6% /dev
rootfs 28G 28G 360M 99% /
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
9.9G 7.8G 2.1G 79% /mnt/winxp

Anyone know if it's safe to shut my system down now?

[devils casper]

i think its safe now. lets hope for the best. :fingers crossed:






Casper

[frazelle09]

Thanks Casper! Lol! i'll give it a shot. Here goes...

[frazelle09]

Good man, Casper! Yo the man! Did complete shutdown and reboot.

Here we are! Have a great evening and thanks for everything!

[devils casper]

ahaa ! i am glad i could help you.







Casper