Hi,

I'm a genuine linux n00b, and since 2 days ago i installed SuSE 9.2 Pro as Dual boot on my box, for learning matters.
i have two windows partitions, C and D
C holds the Windows installation and Program files etc etc
D hold my personal files, including documents music and applications.

The whole linux installation went fine and i had no problems, everything worked fine.
Until i wanted to make a FAT partition in linux so i could transfer files from linux to windows and vice versa.

I did this with Partitioner, that comes along with YAST2
Anywayz, i took 2gb of the D windows partition, and created a new partition (FAT) with 2gb size.

I reboot my pc and i want togo into my windows D partition, but it sez something like not mounted.
I thought that is strange, and booted up my WinXP pro.
/me goes My Computer -> D:


What the F is up with this? i resize the partition, and it just gets unreadable?! WTF?!
Anywayz, i didnt format it yet because i hope some of you geniuses knows how to bring my baby back.
I got a (small) backup, but it also very outdated!
Its real important that i get this back, because there are alot of important files on it that i need to have!

Does someone knows how to help me?
Contact me in this thread, Pm me, mail me on flxfxp [at] gmail [dot] com or talk with me on msn @ the same adress!

Thanks alot in advance,

/me prays....

FLX

you could delete windows partition
next time don't format partition leave it unformated
then you'll not make such a mistake for a 2nd time
check under linux what partitions you have and what is missing
fdisk/cfdisk /dev/hda (if it's on the same HD as C: drive)
check your /etc/fstab
if you used ext2/3 you can use ext3 explorer google 4 it
if you'll find linux on D: then it means for 90% that you've deleted/formated
wrong partition

good luck

i didnt formatted it yet, unless Partitioner did it by itself :S but i dont think it would...

anywayz, here are some screenshots:


hda1 is Windows Partition C:
hda5 is Windows Partition D: (resized and not readable now)
hda6 is the FAT partition i made

here is a screenshot of the FAT Partition settings:


if you need more info i would be happy to supply.

FLX

you have one partition unmounted /dev/hda5
to mount it make sth like this

cd /mnt/
mkdir drived
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/drived

mount may need additional parameter to specify filesystem
if i remember it was -f ntfs or sth like that
check in man

man mount

ps. your disk has now 5 partitions
hda1 NTFS 27GB
hda3 linux swap 1GB
hda4 linux 10GB
hda5 NTFS 112GB
hda6 FAT32 1,4GB

you said that you've made a new partition 2GB in size
maybe it's the hda6 :|

aah and remember one thing
partition != drive letter in windows
also when you partition from dos or format remember
that you will not see ntfs drive until you load ntfs driver

greetz

i could see the hd first and browse it with conqueror.
anywayz, its -t ntfs, and i got this:

linux:/ # umount /dev/hda5
umount: /dev/hda5: not mounted

linux:/ # mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/drived
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

i got nothing mounted, so it gotta be a bad block or something : /
when i resized it with Partitioner i just clicked on the partition and clicked: resize.
now if i want to resize hda5 i get: "You cannot resize the selected partition because the filesystem on this partition does not support beeing resized"
i can press edit and then i get:



Thanks for the support so far

linux:/ # mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/drived
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

it doesn't mean your drive/partition is damaged

edit /etc/fstab
copy line for /dev/hda1
change /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda5
and mount point
/windows/c to /mnt/drived

to load fstab use
mount -a(if i remember well)

to view mounted drives use
mount

paste mount result and tell me what user u use for mounting
root or other?

read this also
htp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/301656

i use root for mounting.

linux:~ # mount
/dev/hda4 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
/dev/hdd on /media/dvd type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/hdc on /media/dvdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/hda6 on /windows/Transfer type vfat (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

my fstab looks now like this:


linux:~ # mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

i just checked with various tools.
it is really empty.
i reformatted it.
thanks for all the quick help....

FLX