[CLUE-Tech] Recovering lost HD data

[Kevin Cullis]

Tom,

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1244.
Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1          1         2     16033+  83  Linux

Kevin

Tom Poindexter wrote:
> 
> What does your partition table look like?
> E.g, as root:
>         /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb
>         p
>         q
> 
> If the install repartitioned hdb, you could (in theory) just re-edit the
> partition table.  However, if the install also did a mkfs on the newly
> partitioned drive (likely), or fsck has checked and 'repaired' the file
> system, I'd have to agree with the others' assessments:
> "white, wheat, or rye?"
> 
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:07:07PM -0600, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had installed SuSe 7.2 on a machine (two hard drives: hda and hdb) and
> > went through a new install process without wanting it to touch hdb. I
> > had some data on hdb on one partition while hda had the three normal
> > partitions. While the install process went smoothly, it repartitioned
> > hdb and it shows only 15 Mb on it while it is a 9 Gb hard drive.
> 
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> Tom Poindexter
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