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Re: HELP!!! lost a partition!!!

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From: Grae Noble
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 00:00
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I decided to reinstall RH 4.2 from scratch so I backed up all the files I
wanted to keep, shutdown, and put in the InfoMagic cd and went to dos,loaded
up RH autoboot and went into linux fdisk to scrub my linux partition.
I got a list of partitions from 'p' and then pressed 'd' to delete the
partition (in this case hda4 , for some reason the RH install changes the
type from 83 to 93 'Amoeba' when it formats and this was the only one not
DOS or swap). I rechecked the table and it was fine so I wrote the table and
exited...
After a reboot I went into windows95 to do a bit of a check to see if things
were alright (i had one of those ono'second feelings ,i.e. the time it takes
between pressing enter and saying OhNooooo!!!) and what's this!!! where the
@#@$%^& has my D: gone. After a check in partitionmagic i can confirm that
some how I'd managed to wipe the insides of my extended partition. About 1GB
as compared to the 512mb patition I had intended to kill. I'm certain I
didn't get the two confused.


Can I restore the partition table??? I'm desperate!!!
TIA...
Grae

PS on second thought, I might have hit 5 instead of 4
>and i didn't wipe the extended partition, but the logical drive inside it
and no I haven't written anything over it yet (I hope)
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From: "Grae Noble" <c9709748@engmail.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: HELP!!! lost a partition!!!
Date: 1997/12/08
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