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Old 07-14-2009   #11 (permalink)
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I don't suppose its possible to do any data recovery on deleted partitions?
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One of the best tools for partition recovery is TestDisk:

TestDisk - CGSecurity

You can find it on lots of liveCDs such as the Parted Magic LiveCD.
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Just to be sure, that is a lowercase L in fdisk -l not a 1 or is that just a typo on your part?

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fdisk - l:

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7111 57119076 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7112 7296 1486012+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 7112 7296 1485981 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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that looks good -will give it a go. thanks!
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Just to be sure, that is a lowercase L in fdisk -l not a 1 or is that just a typo on your part?

did type into terminal as lower case L
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