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Please help with fdisk DISASTER!

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From: Adam Eberbach
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 00:00
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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!

This disk had a lot of work stored in the deleted partition, from past and
current projects. It is vital that it be restored. After noticing the
error I just turned it all off and lay on the floor for a while, so at
least I haven't been making it worse.

Please send any suggestions via email as soon as you can.

-- 
Adam Eberbach
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From: frobozz@ozemail.com.au (Adam Eberbach)
Subject: Please help with fdisk DISASTER!
Date: 1997/05/25
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