[SOLVED] Windows 8 made all my arch partition unallocated space

raxbg · 2012-03-14 06:42:00

Hi, I've been using arch for the past 8 months without any problem. I used to have win 7 and fedora on my laptop also.I used the bootloader from fedora to boot arch. Yesterday I decided to replace win7 with win8. After playing around with it, it was time to return to my arch, so I grabbed a live cd and booted, chrooted to my fedora and reinstalled grub. Everything fine but when I rebooted and selected Arch to start I got error that the partition doesn't exist. I booted into fedora and really, gparted shows all my 3 arch partitions as unallocated space. Why only arch has been deleted, and is there a way to save it somehow? I don't know the exact size of the previous partitions. Thanks

Last edited by raxbg (2012-03-15 06:52:33)

Awebb · 2012-03-14 06:52:53

Have a look at testdisk (and probably photorec). It was made for this scenario.

raxbg · 2012-03-14 07:06:57

thank you, I will give testdisk a try later on. I have to go to school now. I will post the result.

raxbg · 2012-03-14 17:50:51

ok Im back and just started testdisk, but what type of partition table should I chose? Since it has windows and linux partitions? Do I have to chose Intel, and what will happen if chose the wrong partition table? Thank you

raxbg · 2012-03-14 18:19:49

I tried it and now I booted in fedora but when I open gparted tho whole disk is marked as unallocated what the fuck! help pls

mandog · 2012-03-15 00:58:22

Maybe parted magic live cd can help do a check and repair option on the partitions.

Last edited by mandog (2012-03-15 01:31:03)

raxbg · 2012-03-15 06:52:15

fdisk seems to find the partition table correctly, but I will not try to write it to the disk since it is now working. Im gonna buy a USB Hard drive and move everything important there first, then I will experiment Thank you for your help

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[SOLVED] Windows 8 made all my arch partition unallocated space

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