[ros-general] ROS installer scribbled over my ext2 partition :-(

[jh]

Christof Petig wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I decided to give 0.2.6 another try on my hardware and tried to install
> it into a small fat32 partition (4th primary partition). The repartition
> program did not recognize too much of my partition structure but since I
> did not plan to change any partition I was not alert.
> 
> Then I formatted the partition (simply using the existing fat fs did not
> work at all) and that did not work either. Unfortunately another
> partition was affected (it killed the root directory of my i386 (=32bit)
> linux partition /dev/hda6). I did not find any valuable data lost so far
> (after reconstructing the filesystem) ...
> 
> To spare other users this unpleasant experience I would love to
> investigate this problem a bit further:
> 
> fdisk -l gives me:
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1         914     7341673+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2             915        4743    30756442+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            4744        7175    19535040    5  Extended
> /dev/hda4            7176        7296      971932+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda5            4744        4865      979933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda6            4866        7175    18555043+  83  Linux
> 
> And the ROS installer recognizes:
> 19077MB unpartitioned space
>  7170MB NTFS C:
> 17592186024390MB unpartitioned space
> 957MB --- T 130
> 18120MB --- T 131 D:
> 949MB unpartitioned space
> 
> so it looks really confused.
> 
> Hardware: Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo 1630 AMD64 3700+
> 
>    Christof

If you need to rescue your partitions, this will do it for you.

TestDisk, http://www.cgsecurity.org, is OpenSource software and is 
licensed under the GNU Public License.

Regards,
jh