[ubuntu-uk] Please help.I've lost my partitions

[Matthew Daubney]

On 24/01/10 22:48, javadayaz wrote:
> yes it does give me this:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x2ab32ab3
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x03e803e7
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1        1120     8996368+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2            1121        1369     2000092+  82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/sdb3            1370        4998    29149942+  83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000f27c1
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1               1        1245    10000431   83  Linux
>
> When i boot the hard drive..it goes through the loading bar, but then 
> drops me into some sort of shell. a black screen.
>
> hope this makes sense!
>
> and thank you for responding.
>
Boot from a livecd, DON'T BOOT FROM THE HD UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THIS 
RECOVERY STUFF!

Have a look at a program called testdisk (sudo apt-get install testdisk) 
, it runs from a terminal (sudo testdisk) but does have a terminal based 
gui to lead you through recovering stuff. I've used it several times to 
recover lost partitions. It can take a while to run though.

But seriously, everytime you try and boot from the HDD and it fails you 
risk damaging what remains of the data. So boot from a CD to do this.

Hope that helps.

-Matt Daubney