08-27-2008
help rescue my data
I was runing suse 10.2 and windows ,i had installed windows on a separate 40 gb hard disk and linux on a 160 gb disk which it shrunk and left some 60 gb which were readable in windows.
Due to the fact that i store alot of data in the windows partions i used all the extra 60gb which where readable on the 160 linux disk but still wanted more disk space so i decided to remove the other 100 gb linux was using up (which it had partitioned into separate drives) ...so that i could later come up with a scheme where linux would use less space.
The sad and naive part of my story is that i deleted these linux partions using the disk managment tool in windows, but i left the ones with my data intact.
When i restarted, the computer could not load any o.s (since i had deleted the linux partitions which included the boot for linux and windows, it used to dual boot ).
I tried to reinstall linux but it couldnt be done on the 160gb drive (thats the message i got during installion) so i formated the 40gb disk reinstalled windows and linux (on the 40gb) so that through, linux i could recover my windows data (the 60gb on 160gb the linux drive) but linux cannot read this drive though formating/partitioning tool in yast can and it reads it as a linux native it says i can only format this disk, it shows that the disk still has data on it and all i want to do is rescue the 60gb windows data on that disk ... please help.
Last edited by soba; 08-27-2008 at 08:33 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
fdformat
FDFORMAT(8) Linux Programmer's Manual FDFORMAT(8)
NAME
fdformat - Low-level formats a floppy disk
SYNOPSIS
fdformat [-n] device
DESCRIPTION
fdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the
minor is shown for informational purposes only):
/dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4)
/dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8)
/dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12)
/dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12)
/dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16)
/dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16)
/dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20)
/dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24)
/dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)
/dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5)
/dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
/dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13)
/dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13)
/dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17)
/dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17)
/dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21)
/dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25)
/dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)
The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the for-
mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters.
OPTIONS
-n No verify. This option will disable the verification that is performed after the format.
SEE ALSO
fd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8)
AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
AVAILABILITY
The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Linux 0.99 1 February 1993 FDFORMAT(8)