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Topic: Partition Table lost- need help- Live CD!

Hello, after rezising reiserfs partition I tried to set a label for the volume with some partitions on it like ntfs, fat32, and reiserfs. Gparted crashed and now my partition- table is lost. I did not format any drive, so I hope I CAN RESTORE DATA anyway? My last backup was long time ago, I can not explain how important it ist for me to get my home-folders back.
Thanks for your help! martin

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2 Reply by LarryT

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Re: Partition Table lost- need help- Live CD!

yeah, using testdisk you can recover your partition table

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Re: Partition Table lost- need help- Live CD!

Thank you! I think this is an option of the LiveCD? I boot from LiveCD, choose the HDD and select "Test Drive" and than I will see?

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Re: Partition Table lost- need help- Live CD!

Open a terminal and type 'testdisk', then it's only a matter of reading carefully:)

I am very interested in this crashing of gparted. Could you provide a little bit more information about the version of the livecd you used, your hardware and what operations you were doing exactly?

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Re: Partition Table lost- need help- Live CD!

Thank you, I'v got some of my partitions back but there are still problems with heads and cylinders. Testdisk say's that I should have 255 heads but ther are 16. How can I change this settings without so much fear?

gparted crashing: I used the gparted-livecd-0.3.3 because my Kanotix (Debian Sid) has made problems while mounting devices and networking, so I shut it down and could not bring my Kanotix up again. After booting Kanotix-LiveCD and reinstall Grub it was still the same.
After starting with gparted LiveCD I was shure that all Partitions where present. I deleted one reiserfs and rezised another reiserfs-partition to make it bigger. Than I set a label for the volume (dont know why) and gparted was crashing. After reboot the HDD seems to be blank.
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Re: Partition Table lost- need help- Live CD!

it's not possible to set a volumelabel from within gparted yet. So i think you have set the disktype (to 'msdos' e.g.) This procedure will warn you repeatetly about losing all partitions etc..
I think this might explain the 'blank' HDD.
However, i still don't understand why gparted crashed. I take it the operations hda finished succesfully and it only crashed after setting the disklabel? (this can be deduced from the fact that setting a disklabel is different from the other operations)