[tech] Partition Problem

[Ian McKellar]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 16:49, Aaron Alderman wrote:
[snip doom]
> As a result I fear that I may have to format my hard drive, losing gigs
> and gigs of data that just isnt feasable to backup.
> Has anyone gotten out of this type of situaton or can tell me what i can
> do? (hopefully not format)

You could try booting off some kind of linux recovery CD and doing some
magicks:
http://staff.washington.edu/trav/linux/lost_partition.html

The key here is the nifty tool gpart that will guess where your
partition table was before you screwed it up.

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

Ian