[Gllug] 'lost' partition -- can anyone help?

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Wed May 18 15:35:03 UTC 2005


Chris Hutchison writes:

>I've a problem: prior to upgrading from Mandrake 9.2 to Mandrake 10, I 
>installed a 2nd (120Gb) Maxtor hard drive and backed up all my existing 
>data (around 5Gb) to it so that I could do a clean install of Mandrake 
>10 on my old (40 Gb) drive.  I *KNOW* (and double-checked) that the 
>data was successfully copied to the new hard drive.

By what mechanism did you back it up? How did you check it was there?
What partitions/filesystems do you think were on the second disk at
the time of the upgrade?

Can you post the output of:

	fdisk -l /dev/hd{a,b}

Tet
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