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> Hi, there:
>
> I have an external hard drive which I used in Windows system for a while.
> Last night, I trid to mount it to the my linux box, and backup something.
>
> However, I followed some online instruction (supposed to be used for
> brandnew external drive only), specifically, I did:
>
> fdisk /dec/sda
> mkfs /dev/sda
>
> My linux got frozen during the second command, and I had to shut the
> machine
> down. However, now my external hard drive can not be recongized in Windows
> too (Windows XP can pick up the drive in the device manager, but the disk
> manger can not).
>
> What are my choices now? Is it possible that the data on the disk is lost?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> sincerely,
>
> Rui
>
Rui,


fdisk /dec/sda or fdisk /dev/sda?


Regards,


Jan Gerrit

Thanks for your reply. It was fdisk /dev/sda.

After posting for help, I played around with the windows XP, and XP says
that my drive is not initialized. When I initialize it, it says that the
disk is not formated yet. Looks like I really screwed it up? A friend told
me that things on the disk are now gone forever, is this true?

sincerely,

Rui


Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:

> "rui qiao" schreef in bericht
> news:db622v$vli$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
>> Hi, there:
>>
>> I have an external hard drive which I used in Windows system for a while.
>> Last night, I trid to mount it to the my linux box, and backup something.
>>
>> However, I followed some online instruction (supposed to be used for
>> brandnew external drive only), specifically, I did:
>>
>> fdisk /dec/sda
>> mkfs /dev/sda
>>
>> My linux got frozen during the second command, and I had to shut the
>> machine
>> down. However, now my external hard drive can not be recongized in
>> Windows too (Windows XP can pick up the drive in the device manager, but
>> the disk manger can not).
>>
>> What are my choices now? Is it possible that the data on the disk is
>> lost?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> sincerely,
>>
>> Rui
>>
> Rui,
>
>
> fdisk /dec/sda or fdisk /dev/sda?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit

Thank you very much for pointing out several data recovery softwares. I will
figure out how much my data worth and decide then.

sincerely,

Rui