[ubuntu-in] Need Help - Disaster during some fiddling with partitioning tool -

[Moz]

Dear Ram

Hi. In similar situations, I have promptly removed the hard drive, connected
it to another computer as an external hard drive and gotten the data out
first. But then, this is very easy to do on Toshiba laptops which allow
removal and inserting hard drives and RAMs very easily.

If this is not feasible, then please try to use a partition copier, perhaps
there is a liveCD based partition recovery tool I have used once which might
come ot help perhaps Acronis DiskDirector or can do that.

Regards

Moz

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan. K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> ***
> thanks
> ram
>
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