"No partition table found" Can't access to my DATA partition

TheImmortalPhoenix · 2012-01-18 05:26:57

Hello friends! It's happened a catastrophe! Yesterday I was resizing partitions on my hard drive, divided in this way:

1: ext4 containing CHAKRA
2: swap
3: extended
3rd: DATA
And here there were all the other partiotions containing ARCH (/ / var / home)

I decided to delete all partitions of Arch, and to extend the DATA partition with the space available obtained by the elimination of arch ... I have done these steps on chakra, the extended partition was unmounted and free to work, I left my computer on all night without even using it so as not to interfere, but 10 minutes ago I go to check and I discover that my computer is off (do not know why because the battery was attached, maybe electricity went down for a considerable period of time and in any case my battery lasts a very little so it has not resisted until the return of electricity).
I turn my computer on, I sign in it with Chakra and I find out that the extended partition is gone! Partitionmanager tells me "No partition table found" and all my data are disappeared!
Is there a way to remedy this apocalypse? I truly don't know what to do, apart committing suicide!

Last edited by TheImmortalPhoenix (2012-01-18 05:30:20)

Yurlungur · 2012-01-18 06:24:45

Just do a clean install and restore your backed-up data from an external drive?

Sorry, that's mean. I think your data should be recoverable, although I don't know if it's recoverable by you. There are software tools to rescue data from corrupted drives that can probably rescue it. Why don't you do a little research on data recovery? (you may have to wait until Wikipedia is back online... or, you know, disable javascript.)

TheImmortalPhoenix · 2012-01-18 06:31:35

I don't have any external drive with backups! And i don't know what programs to use....when i analyse the drive with gparted, it show me all the drive with unallocate space!! It's even strange that i can boot chakra! ???

ewaller · 2012-01-18 06:32:17

Two suggestions.
First off, if you have the ability to image the drive, do it now.
Second, boot from an Arch CD and see what fdisk says about the drive.

TheImmortalPhoenix · 2012-01-18 06:47:27

There is no drive! There is only free space, and all i can do is to create a new partition...

This is the output of fdisk -l

 > sudo fdisk -l
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0x131b of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006fdf9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    31459327    15728640   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        35653632   976766975   470556672    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3        31459328    35653631     2097152   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5   ?  3648605328  6213431608  1282413140+  fb  VMware VMFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

ewaller · 2012-01-18 07:17:43

Seriously, I would not do a thing until you clone the drive to another disk; Then I would experiment with that clone.

I am by no means an expert on drive recovery, but it is clear you are missing everything from block 976766976 to block 3648605327.
Before, did you have a VMWare partition at the end, or was that part of the extended partition?

Last edited by ewaller (2012-01-18 07:18:20)

TheImmortalPhoenix · 2012-01-18 07:46:36

It's part of the extended partition

TheImmortalPhoenix · 2012-01-18 09:14:17

I'm using testdisk...

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When it fineshes, what i have to do?

stqn · 2012-01-18 15:57:33

I don't understand why you had to let it work all night when all you've supposedly done is deleting some partitions and extending another. It should be an almost instant operation, shouldn't it?

TheImmortalPhoenix · 2012-01-18 16:37:53

No, because partitions had to be shinked and sectors to be move right or left...after 5 hours the process reached about 40%

piratebill · 2012-01-18 16:59:52

TheImmortalPhoenix wrote:

I'm using testdisk...
When it fineshes, what i have to do?

When it finishes it should give an option to write to disk or something. Then you just reboot. Good luck.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-01-18 05:26:57

"No partition table found" Can't access to my DATA partition

#2 2012-01-18 06:24:45

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