<div dir="ltr">The only problem is i dont think the hard drive is mounted, even though fdisk -l does show it as /dev/sda.!!<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/24 Matthew Daubney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@daubers.co.uk">matt@daubers.co.uk</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 24/01/10 22:48, javadayaz wrote:<br> > yes it does give me this:<br> ><br> > Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes<br> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders<br> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br> > Disk identifier: 0x2ab32ab3<br> ><br> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br> ><br> > Disk /dev/sdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes<br> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders<br> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br> > Disk identifier: 0x03e803e7<br> ><br> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br> > /dev/sdb1 * 1 1120 8996368+ 83 Linux<br> > /dev/sdb2 1121 1369 2000092+ 82 Linux swap /<br> > Solaris<br> > /dev/sdb3 1370 4998 29149942+ 83 Linux<br> ><br> > Disk /dev/sdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes<br> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders<br> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br> > Disk identifier: 0x000f27c1<br> ><br> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br> > /dev/sdc1 1 1245 10000431 83 Linux<br> ><br> > When i boot the hard drive..it goes through the loading bar, but then<br> > drops me into some sort of shell. a black screen.<br> ><br> > hope this makes sense!<br> ><br> > and thank you for responding.<br> ><br> </div></div>Boot from a livecd, DON'T BOOT FROM THE HD UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THIS<br> RECOVERY STUFF!<br> <br> Have a look at a program called testdisk (sudo apt-get install testdisk)<br> , it runs from a terminal (sudo testdisk) but does have a terminal based<br> gui to lead you through recovering stuff. I've used it several times to<br> recover lost partitions. It can take a while to run though.<br> <br> But seriously, everytime you try and boot from the HDD and it fails you<br> risk damaging what remains of the data. So boot from a CD to do this.<br> <br> Hope that helps.<br> <br> -Matt Daubney<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Javad<br><br> </div></div>