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I'm activating again my desktop (I've being using my wife's machine since we've got married one year ago) in the last days, basically making some backups, from the kubuntu partition, from the winXP partition, data partitions, et cetera. To after all that install just Kubuntu and try again to live only with a linux distro at home :)
My motivation to do such a change was that my computer was presenting some strange behavior the last weeks I had used it, like deciding booting by itself, Kubuntu was reporting some Hard Disk errors on start up and bad things like that.
My problem began when I decided to reset my master boot record in order to have grub to be gonne. I've created my Partition Magic (old version 8.0) rescue disks and booted. To my surprise the
After that my first partition, the one with all my computer life since I was a teenager building little Clipper frankensteins, was gonne! The Kubuntu live CD was not booting anymore, and I was lost.
My first idea was to look at wikipedia's page about fdisk, which led me to the wonderful free tool called TestDisk. On its web site I found a link to another gift from the GNU/Linux community, the GParted Live CD.
A happy end to all my arcane files, thanks TestDisk, GParted Live CD project and Wikipedia!
My motivation to do such a change was that my computer was presenting some strange behavior the last weeks I had used it, like deciding booting by itself, Kubuntu was reporting some Hard Disk errors on start up and bad things like that.
My problem began when I decided to reset my master boot record in order to have grub to be gonne. I've created my Partition Magic (old version 8.0) rescue disks and booted. To my surprise the
fdisk /mbr did not work and complained about not being capable of save my current partition info in order to change to a new one. Well, I don't know why I decided to set my first partition to be bootable (it was already but I thought it couldn't make any damage...)After that my first partition, the one with all my computer life since I was a teenager building little Clipper frankensteins, was gonne! The Kubuntu live CD was not booting anymore, and I was lost.
My first idea was to look at wikipedia's page about fdisk, which led me to the wonderful free tool called TestDisk. On its web site I found a link to another gift from the GNU/Linux community, the GParted Live CD.
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.To resume, I've booted with the GParted live cd, openned a shell and used the
testdisk utility to recover my lost partitions and it worked like a sharp Katana slicing some puddin =)A happy end to all my arcane files, thanks TestDisk, GParted Live CD project and Wikipedia!
- Mood:
happy
