[ubuntu-in] Need Help - Disaster during some fiddling with partitioning tool -
Ramnarayan.K
ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 17:31:34 BST 2008
So Should i do this
run testdisk as sudo
select the
Step 1
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB
Step2
Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done.
[Intel ] Intel/PC partition
[Mac ] Apple partition map
[None ] Non partitioned media
[Sun ] Sun Solaris partition
[XBox ] XBox partition
[Return ] Return to disk selection
so in this i select [Intel]
Step 3
which shows
Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
[ Analyse ] Analyse current partition structure and search for lost partitions
[ Advanced ] Filesystem Utils
[ Geometry ] Change disk geometry
[ Options ] Modify options
[ MBR Code ] Write TestDisk MBR code to first sector
[ Delete ] Delete all data in the partition table
[ Quit ] Return to disk selection
Note: Correct disk geometry is required for a successful recovery. 'Analyse'
process may give some warnings if it thinks the logical geometry is mismatched.
QUESTION: WHAT is the correct disk Geometry ??
Step 4 Analyse
which shows:
Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 1304 254 63 20964762 [IBM_PRELOAD]
P FAT32 LBA 1305 0 1 2033 254 63 11711385
L Linux Swap 2034 1 1 2495 254 63 7421967
L Linux 2959 1 1 3759 254 63 12868002 [/]
L Linux 3760 1 1 9089 254 63 85626387 [/home]
Step 5 - [MBR CODE]
Should i just do this and let testdisk do the rest
or should i do something else
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thanks
ram
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