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Augh! Augh! Augh! It's gone!!

  • 17-09-2001 9:14pm
    #1
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭


    I'm not going to go into detail about how it happened, but the partition tables on a 20gb hdd of mine were buggered - that hdd has an unbelieveable amount of important data on it, and I need it back.

    Well, I can live without it, but I've lost:
    * Source code to LOADS of applications I've written
    * Documents
    * mp3s (I can't live without my MUSIC!!)
    * movies
    * gigs of downloaded stuff that would be hell to try to find again
    * god knows what else

    Bear in mind two things, I'm practically peniless, so I can't send it to a data recovery place, and I don't have weeks of free time to go searching through a dump of the whole disk to locate bits and pieces of files. :)

    HEEELLP!!!!!


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  • #2
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    And the first person to say "why didn't you keep backups??" will be castrated.

    (I was trying to back it up to another hdd when it happened)


  • #3
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Will have a look for software tomorrow in work and ask some techy guy who knows everything !

    Oh yeah, I refer you to your sig.


  • #4
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    Oh, yeah, well, but, um, those zillions of ones and zeroes combine to make up my *life*! I have to start from scratch! You can't imagine what having an empty /mp3s/ directory is like!


  • #5
    mayhem#
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭mayhem#


    check your mail...


  • #6
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    I ws just emailed this link, have a look:
    http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

    Be sure to read all the documentation before you do anything.


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  • #7
    djmagra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭djmagra


    boot from a floppy to a command prompt, and assuming this is your Primary HDD, type fdisk /mbr and see if that works, it will re-write your Master Boot Record, or Partition table for want of a better word


  • #8
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    It isn't windows. It's a real operating system.


  • #9
    djmagra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭djmagra


    Ahhh....well why didn't ye say so!!! ;o)


  • #10
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    After using the gpart app that yellum mentioned above, it detects all my partitions but the large 17gb one with everything on it.

    So close, and yet...

    I'm going to email the author and see if he has any advice.

    See, isn't open-source cool? A peniless student like me, having a really wicked tool like gpart? :)


  • #11
    Superman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    i feel for you ?!?


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  • #12
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    gpart saved it, all of it. yay for gpart!


  • #13
    Praetorian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    You can backup now :p


  • #14
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    Done and done. First thing I did, copy it all over the network to the current server. It took five hours, because of my slow aul 10mbit network.. *sigh*


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