[Solved] Windows ate my linux partition table, can I recover

hypoglycemic · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 35 Location: Australia

Setup: 2 physical hard drives, hda and hdb.

Hda contained my windows install and died several days ago. Hdb, reiserFS, containing grub and my linux install still booted fine.

After fitting a new hard drive and running the windows installer, as expected windows declared itself king of my computer and overwrote grub. Fine.

The only probelem now is that the drive that linux was on is apparently unformatted and unpartitioned. Windows says that it is uninitialised and using the live CD says that there is no partitioning or formatting. During the install I didn't ever install anything to the linux drive so im not sure what happened.

Is it possible to remind my computer about the partitions and information on there? or do I have to start all over again?

syg00 · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject:

testdisk - on Knoppix if you have one.
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Got a good backup ??? - any advice offered presumes you have.

kim_asplund · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject:

u did not by any chance change any bios settings for the disk?

hypoglycemic · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 35 Location: Australia

Testdisk did the trick for me. Thanks. Go Brisvagas.

kim_asplund · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject:

Please mark topic as solved