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sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Going insane - I think I broke my system!

I'm totally freaking out right now. I was resizing my partition via GParted on SystemRescueCD and I think I deleted everything on my Linux partition when I accidentally cancelled! Oh my gosh I need that stuff (I don't have an external backup!). My dad has all his students' things on there he needs.

How can I fix this? Grub gives me like error 2 or something. I'm on a Puppy livecd at the moment. I'm freaking out more than I can ever remember freaking out. Please help if you can!

(Kubuntu 7.10, gnome installed too)

sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: Going insane - I think I broke my system!

Does nobody have an idea through all those views? I must have royally screwed up if the ARCH community can't figure it out!

Ashren

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Registered: 2007-06-13

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Re: Going insane - I think I broke my system!

Can you see the partition in cfdisk/gparted? If, yes, have you tried mounting it from a livecd?

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sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: Going insane - I think I broke my system!

I can see in Gparted but it has a triangular yellow symbol with a ! in it. This is what I see when attempting to Pmount it:

Bebo

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From: Göteborg, Sweden

Registered: 2006-06-07

Posts: 207

Re: Going insane - I think I broke my system!

sajro, that sounds awful... Anyway, I have never heard of anyone cancelling a resize (not that I've heard that much, so don't read too much into that), so I have no idea in what state a system like yours could have ended up in. If you're lucky (well...) only the partition table was killed. Maybe TestDisk can do something for you? Or Foremost. I have never used these tools myself, but have heard good things about them. For instance, recently there was a thread where an unfortunate dd command was rectified with TestDisk. Before you start fiddling with these tools, it is important to make a complete copy of the ruined disk, in case you fail on your first try to fix it.

sajro

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Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 56

Re: Going insane - I think I broke my system!

it is important to make a complete copy of the ruined disk, in case you fail on your first try to fix it.

Issue: the only hard disk in my house is the broken one.

kakTuZ

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 86

Re: Going insane - I think I broke my system!

Bebo is right.
Buy a second hdd.
You can use it for backups later, when everything is fine again.