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frobozz@ozemail.com.au (Adam Eberbach) writes:
> I have accidentally repartitioned a hard disk using fdisk and if it's
> possible I have to reverse the actions. 
> 
> The disk was partitioned as a primary partition with a logical DOS
> partition on the extended partition. I was trying to repartition a
> separate drive, connected as master of the primary IDE interface, CDROM on
> secondary. The disk which was wrongly partitioned was connected as master
> of the secondary interface. I don't think I was wrong in thinking that I
> wanted to partition /dev/hdc.
> 
> Sequence of events:
> Boot RedHat 4 boot & supp disks. Get to disk partitioning stage, enter
> fdisk, target /dev/hdc. Delete partitions 1,2 and 5 from disk. Think at
> the time "strange...thought there was only one?" Create one large
> partition over the whole disk, set file type to 6 (MSDOS > 32M). Reboot to
> DOS, notice a drive missing, panic!
> 

if you remember _exactly_ the partition-data, you could do this:

 Boot RedHat 4 boot & supp disks. Go to disk partitioning stage, enter
 fdisk, target /dev/hdc. Create partitions 1,2 and 5 with the old data and
 write it to disk.

Note:
This works only if after exiting the wrong fdisk YOU DIDN'T WROTE ANYTHING
TO /dev/hdc
No warranty...

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Jan Tellkamp
Flensburg, 26. Mai 1997


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