santhosh_linux Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hi All, I have 160 Gb Hard disk filled with, 120 GB Windows partion splitted as C:,D:,E:,F: remaining 35 GB, i used for Ubuntu and mandriva. Today, i got Redhat EL 5 server cd's and i planned to install, so i booted and get into the steps. after the few installation step, suddenly it asks for partitioning and i proceeded with Erase ALL data. within one second i saw the custom layout(partitioning) as 160 Free. and i suddenly rebooted the system to avoid proceeding, my grub was gone, i cant find out all the partition, now i m using ubuntu live cd to tying this message and connecting internet. If i give the following command in Ubuntu live cd it shows: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x8f800000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ i m very sad, please help to recover my partions. I think,it wont loss because i wont start the installation. Idont know Idont know wat to do, Urgent very... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 It looks like it wiped your partition table. Chances are, the data is still on the disk (unless a thorough format was done), but I don't know if it's possible to recover it. To recover it, you would need to know exactly where the partitions began and the MFT would have to be untouched. Theoretically though the MFT is fine, and so is all of the data. Happen to know exactly how many bytes each partition used to be? Maybe a program exists for scanning a disk for MFTs or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santhosh_linux Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Thanks for reply, i used the tool: test disk and recovered all the windows partition(happy). rebooted and got grub 22 error,tried some fixing got grub 17 error. finally put fedora got kernel syncing error:unable to mount vfs..../ atlast i put ubuntu hardy(with windows) and happily working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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