Well I was tinkering around with my partitions and messed the partitions table.. Now only Music NTFS partitions and Filesystem partition are visible.. I don’t know how Windows partitioner will respond to it .. will check that.. but till then.. Is there a good Backup software.. Platform can be any one… Is there a Live CD type backup software ? I don’t care about my data but the pics and few docs are really important !
Hoping for Urgent help
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Edit : Here is my fdisk -l output
[root@localhost shashwat]# fdisk -l
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0dd6c6bd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3187 25599546 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 3188 8287 40965687 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 8288 9607 10602900 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 9608 9729 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda5 ? 3597 122978 958924038+ 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot
[root@localhost shashwat]#
Regards
Hold a second - you aren’t being clear here.
Do you want to restore your files that are on the deleted partitions? And where is this Music partition you speak of?
Do you have access to a large external HDD? If so, plug it in, run a live cd, and do the following:
dd if=/dev/sda of=
where /dev/sda is the internal HDD and outputfile is a new file to be created on the external HDD (i.e. outputfile is of the form /media/XYZ/backup.img or something).
By doing so, you create a backup that we can then later play with (if necessary).
I posted the fdisk -l output that will help you understand..Also I don’t have external HDD will Internal work with that command ? Now after that saves the out as backup file how can I access it to recover the data ///???
Sure, you can save it to an internal HDD too. (Obviously just not the internal HDD that is mucked up).
Wait a sec - all the partitions are there. I’m confused - what are you trying to do? Were there some other partitions there previously which are now missing?
Yep See the table only 26 Gb and one ext3 partition with Mandrivs Installed is getting mount ..
Here is my mount output
[shashwat@localhost ~]$ mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /media/hd type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
[shashwat@localhost ~]$
OK, the partition(s) that are missing, what type were they? And how many of them were present?
All of them are NTFS.. earlier there were 5 partitions.. 
You need GetDataBackForNTFS + a HDD equal to or greater than the capacity of your existing HDD if you wish to recover all data. I don’t think you can restore the partitions or at least I don’t know how to on the existing problem HDD and if your data is critical, I don’t recommend it.
If you manage to arrange for the HDD, I can help you out. PM me your email address and I can let you know more about the recovery software.
TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
TestDisk is free software, and
comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Select a media (use Arrow keys, then press Enter):
Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - ST380011A
[Proceed ] [ Quit ]
Note: Disk capacity must be correctly detected for a successful recovery.
If a disk listed above has incorrect size, check HD jumper settings, BIOS
detection, and install the latest OS patches and disk drivers.
Man thats pathetic Even test disk fails to detect the partitions.. I just hope System Rescue disk come to the rescue.. AS Windows CD fails to load
Edit : Some bad sectorrs found !
[root@localhost shashwat]# testdisk /list
TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Please wait...
Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63, sector size=512
Disk /dev/hda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 3186 254 63 51199092
2 E extended LBA 3187 2 1 8286 254 63 81931374
3 P Linux 8287 0 1 9606 254 63 21205800
4 P Linux Swap 9607 0 1 9728 254 63 1959930
A logical partition must contain only one partition
5 L DiskSecure MB 3596 144 41 122977 22 38 1917848077
Bad relative sector.
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 E extended LBA 3187 2 1 8286 254 63 81931374
5 L DiskSecure MB 3596 144 41 122977 22 38 1917848077
6 L Sys=43 124771 76 6 237972 105 28 1818575915
Bad relative sector.
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 E extended LBA 3187 2 1 8286 254 63 81931374
6 L Sys=43 124771 76 6 237972 105 28 1818575915
7 L Sys=72 17238 96 29 17238 96 38 10
Bad relative sector.
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 E extended LBA 3187 2 1 8286 254 63 81931374
7 L Sys=72 17238 96 29 17238 96 38 10
[root@localhost shashwat]#
Data Recovery Software on a BartPE Boot CD-Rom
This may help you. The problem really is that your partition table is mucked up. How the partitioner managed to do that is beyond me (defective - how can it possibly conflicts to occur!).
^^Well . I was on dual boot Ubuntu hardy and Mandriva.. I didn’t like hardy so I formatted the partition using Mandriva inbuilt Disk Manager and mounted it in /dev/hd0.. After that all this mess happen .. I guess using Gparted would have saved me with this mess :@