Recover stupid mistake

[Mike McCarty]

Mike Martin wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 19:18, Larry Brower <larry at maxqe.com> wrote:
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>> Tom H wrote:

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>> You may want to try testdisk.
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>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

+1

I tried out testdisk on a disk with no problems a couple
of years ago, just to see what it could find, and it did a
good job.

I like to stay a little ahead of the game. I haven't blown
away a PT yet, but I'd like to be prepared.

> Well I've made some progress, I have my /,boot and home via parted rescue
> 
> Only problem is that now parted only sees swap as p4, rather than an
> extended partition with swap and my main 711 Gig storage partition
> 
> Any ideas

It sounds like you may need to create an extended and then put the
swap inside it. Have you created an extended?

Mike
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