Recover stupid mistake

Mike Martin redtux1 at googlemail.com
Mon May 31 11:34:04 UTC 2010


On 28 May 2010 18:44, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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Thanks to  all - managed to get my data back with a combination of
parted rescue and testdisk

cheers


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