<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: William J Giddings <giddings@freeuk.com><br>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Saturday, 28 July, 2007 9:48:05 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Ubuntu setback<br><br><div>If the UBUNTU installer has simply overwritten the partition table<br>without reformatting the disk then some help is at hand. I did a similar<br>think a few weeks ago when I reinstalled linux. Whilst I had made<br>backups of the data on the windows partitions there were some recent<br>changes which I nearly cried over the prospect of loosing which included<br>about 2 weeks work on
my Ph.D thesis! However, I was delighted to find a<br>utility worthy of the Harry Potter spell book -TestDiak. In deed it<br>rebuilt my partition table quicker than YAST rubbed it out. (The evil<br>deed was not commited by YAST or Valdemort but by my own impatience and<br>negligence!).<br><br>Anyway, find the TestDisk on:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br><br>Good luck with the recovery..<br><br>WJG<br><br></div></div><br>Hi<br><br>Thanks William for the tip on the software I'll go and have a look. I understand where Andy is coming from, I never do anything on my PC or anyone else's without backing up the data first, like I said its a cardinal rule. My colleague didn't wait for me to find out how I can recover the data for him, he immediately reinstalled windows ( I can't tell you how I felt!). I am certain that if he opened gparted the partition would have been there
and he would have been able to move the data to a stick or a dvd.<br><br>And now its all Linux's fault and my fault!!! <br><br>Mo<br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div><br>
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