Fedora 12 HardDrive Help??? PLEASE READ

[megadeth92]

Hi, i installed Fedora 12 on an external hard drive. Everything went fine with the installation and it was working perfectly until i tried to install my video card drivers. I have done this many times before and it has worked. I have an ATI card. Anyway after installing the driver i rebooted and now when it starts it show the loading bar on the bottom but then nothing happens its just a black screen!!!!!. The worst part is that when i go into windows and my external is plugged in windows wont read it and i have very valuable data on it. I go into disk management and it shows up but windows says that its empty. which is obviously not true because Fedora starts to boot. I really just want Fedora off my external and for windows to read my external with all the files still on it. Is there a way to get by that blank screen????

Somebody PLEASE HELP ME i really dont want to format my drive because i have a few hundred gigs of stuff on it.

Thank you. Any advice would be nice.

[nujinini]

Hi and welcome to the forums!

The worst part is that when i go into windows and my external is plugged in windows wont read it and i have very valuable data on it. I go into disk management and it shows up but windows says that its empty.

Windows formatted as ntfs etc. can't read linux partitions formatted as ext3 etc. Maybe that's why windows says "its empty".

Now it would have been a different story if you formatted your whole HD in ext3 thus overwriting the data.

Can you kindly post the output of

$ fdisk -l
$ df -h

This would help give a better pictureof whats happening.

[ved]

u may use live CD of fedora to retrieve ur data.. u can give it a try atleast.