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| Thread ID: 59593 | 2005-07-06 22:15:00 | cant find a drive's partition | fragmin (8486) | Press F1 |
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| 370134 | 2005-07-06 22:15:00 | Hi, I have two 40G hard drives. I have both partioned to give drive c,d, x & y . I recenty installed Xandros linux on drive y, had a bit of trouble booting widows but corrected this with PTEDIT. but from the time I installed Xandros, xandros did not recognise drive D (2nd partition of 1st disk). Now I have gotten windows to boot (and running ok) It does not recognise drive D. It sees drive C as 20G.How can I recover drive d and its contents | fragmin (8486) | ||
| 370135 | 2005-07-07 01:04:00 | If Windows can't see partitions, they are probably Linux ones. :( According to Windows, the second partition of the first drive will be drive E by default. Drive D will be the first partition of the second drive. If you have messed around with those assignments in Windows you must remember that Linux doesn't know, nor care, what Windows calls partitions. It knows, unambiguously, that the first IDE drive is /dev/hda, and its first two partitions are /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2. The second IDE drive is /dev/hdb, and its partitions will be numbered similarly. You might have used the wrong partitions in your Xandros installation, in which case the contents will have gone away to bit heaven. :( DO NOT TRY TO RECOVER THE PARTITIONS WITH A MICROSOFT partitioner. I don't think any of the GNU/Linux ones will format partitions, so you can use them to change the partition type non-destructively. parted and ranish are well regarded. I still use fdisk or cfdisk (not FDISK.COM ;) ). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 370136 | 2005-07-07 02:29:00 | thanks, will try one of them, but of note linux does not see hda2, well from the desktop that is. I am new new new to linux, so it may take me a while to go through this. Of note also, when is was trying to recover windows, it was seen on drive E, and in dos it shows hda as only one partition. I am sure i used the right partition to add xandros, windows only sees two partitions of the four, it should be seeing three (the missing one being xandros partiton) |
fragmin (8486) | ||
| 370137 | 2005-07-07 02:50:00 | If you can use DOS, FDISK /STATUS gives a non-destructive view of what FDISK "knows", from its MS viewpoint. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 370138 | 2005-07-07 04:08:00 | Try downloading/installing gpart on Linux - It guesses the partition table and is bl00dy good at it too :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 370139 | 2005-07-07 19:39:00 | thanks will try that also | fragmin (8486) | ||
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