Re: aftermath of an ubuntu installation

i tired the testdisk, but when i run the exe of test disk in windows a dos
window comes and goes like the blink of an eye. so i tried the dos method
and it says that a cygwin1.dll file has to be updated with latest one. well
i dont have any idea wat it means. i could find three cygwin.dll files but i
am not sure wat to do with them , but in the meantime i think i will try
the methodolgy that Noop suggested. wish me luck :)

will be back soon

don



On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 03/03/2008 04:44 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
Donny George wrote:
how could i possible convert hda 5 to ntfs

OK, I should have explained it earlier. Be careful with this procedure
because you could possibly make your entire disk unusable. Open a
terminal and type this command:

sudo fdisk /dev/hda

That will give you a new prompt within the fdisk program. Use the "p"
command (without quotes) to display the partition table and verify it is
the trouble disk. Use the "t" command. It will ask for a partition
number. Enter "5" to select the hda5 partition. Now it asks for the hex
code you want to use. Enter "7". Now it tells you that the partition
type
is changed to HPFS/NTFS. Verify the new type of /dev/hda5 with the "p"
command. If there is something wrong, you can still quit the program
with
the "q" command and start again because until now nothing is written to
the disk. Only if it is OK, use the "w" command to write the modified
partition table to the disk.

Then mount the partition with this command:

sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt

If the command succeeds without error message you can check if there are
still data on the partition. If there are data you can find them in
the /mnt directory now.


Nils


Might also want to give test-disk a try:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd



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