On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:31:47 +0000, One 6699 wrote:

>
> I'm still kicking myself but by mistake when I was in Xp I delete
> partitions on my Suse disk - I ment to delete partion on another disk.
> Is ther a tool some where that would alow me to recover that
> information ?

You can do it with fdisk, from a live CD, if you know where the partitions
were. It's probably a bit late, for you, at this point, but one of the
first things I do after partitioning a hard drive is run;

# fdisk -l > /home/me/partitions.txt

I then print partitions.txt, and put it in a three ring binder, with other
things I might need, but won't otherwise have available until I can boot
my machine normally again. I've had partition tables get corrupted, but
never failed to repair the damage with fdisk.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

On Jul 1, 9:31 pm, One 6699 wrote:
> I'm still kicking myself but by mistake when I was in Xp I delete
> partitions on my Suse disk - I ment to delete partion on another disk.
> Is ther a tool some where that would alow me to recover that
> information ?
>
> --
> Thanks - Tom

gpart

I was in a similar situation years ago (no idea what I did to get in
that mess) and gpart helped me fix it. It is on the CDs/DVD.

On 2007-07-02 16:17:17 +0100, Vlad_Inhaler said:

> On Jul 1, 9:31 pm, One 6699 wrote:
>> I'm still kicking myself but by mistake when I was in Xp I delete
>> partitions on my Suse disk - I ment to delete partion on another disk.
>> Is ther a tool some where that would alow me to recover that
>> information ?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks - Tom
>
> gpart
>
> I was in a similar situation years ago (no idea what I did to get in
> that mess) and gpart helped me fix it. It is on the CDs/DVD.

Thanks guys I'll try tomorrow.

--
Thanks - Tom

imotgm wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:31:47 +0000, One 6699 wrote:
>
>> I'm still kicking myself but by mistake when I was in Xp I delete
>> partitions on my Suse disk - I ment to delete partion on another disk.
>> Is ther a tool some where that would alow me to recover that
>> information ?
>
> You can do it with fdisk, from a live CD, if you know where the partitions
> were. It's probably a bit late, for you, at this point, but one of the
> first things I do after partitioning a hard drive is run;
>
> # fdisk -l > /home/me/partitions.txt
>
> I then print partitions.txt, and put it in a three ring binder, with other
> things I might need, but won't otherwise have available until I can boot
> my machine normally again. I've had partition tables get corrupted, but
> never failed to repair the damage with fdisk.

Occasionally there are a few great ideas on here for some of us relative
newbies, and this is one! I just ran that command and saved the file to
a flash drive that I can read from any computer should the worst happen!
I never thought of it before (oblivious newbie), but it makes sense to
have that information available!

On 2007-07-02 16:17:17 +0100, Vlad_Inhaler said:

> On Jul 1, 9:31 pm, One 6699 wrote:
>> I'm still kicking myself but by mistake when I was in Xp I delete
>> partitions on my Suse disk - I ment to delete partion on another disk.
>> Is ther a tool some where that would alow me to recover that
>> information ?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks - Tom
>
> gpart
>
> I was in a similar situation years ago (no idea what I did to get in
> that mess) and gpart helped me fix it. It is on the CDs/DVD.

I found a little utility called testdisk. It's specially aimed at
recovery of lost/deleted partitions. You need another PC to run it and
host the disk with lost/deleted partitions. It works very well.

Tom

--
Thanks - Tom