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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help Plz! Post 31190 by Silicon Demon on Monday 4th of November 2002 12:49:09 AM
Old 11-04-2002
Xenix BBT? what the ????
Ok, here's the deal.

I'm running WinXp.

I was merging two partitions using partition magic when I lost power to my box.

I have very IMPORTANT data on one partition and the other is blank, hence the attempted merge.

After the power loss, I booted my system up. Now, I was getting errors that this and that file was missing and my OS could not load.

So, I formatted and installed WinXp on the partition that had nothing on it. After installing partion magic, i ran the program. Upon launching partition magic i receive a message stating that it detects a merge attempt would you like to try to recover, blah blah blah. ok, so, i hit yes. the recovery was successful. the recovered partition according to partition magic is now recognized as a "Xenix BBT" type partition. after some research i find that Xenix is a version of UNIX which leads me to these forums. Ok, so I'd like to be able to recover my data on this Xenix partition. If anyone can give me some hints or help as to how I can go about doing this, I'd appreciate it and would be in your debt FOREVER!

1) Do I have to install an OS that recognizes a Xenix file system? it's obvious that windows doesn't recognize UNIX file systems of any type.

2) Is my data recoverable at all?
If this is a lost cause, just let me know and I will format the Xenix partition which will cause all of my data to be lost.

Please Please help, anyone.
Last edited by Silicon Demon; 11-04-2002 at 02:01 AM..
 

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addpart

ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart  tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
       ioctl.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device The disk device.

       partition
              The partition number.

       start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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