Re: Recovery of Linux after a problem windows 8 install

Smegzor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm baaaaaaack.

I used testdisk to recover all of the partitions.  It took a lot longer 
than it could have because I wasn't familiar with the tool and it took 
more than 10 hours to dd my 2TB drive, but I've got everything back with 
no data losses.  I could have done it without the new disk and backup 
but hey!  New disk!

Matt

On 14/03/14 20:11, Alex King wrote:
> PS, matt's preferred email address at this time is [email protected]
> On 14/03/14 20:09, Alex King wrote:
>> Matt Dwyer asked me to post to the list to ask if anyone has experience
>> with problems after installing Windows 8.
>>
>> Briefly, he installed windows 8, which went OK, but after re-running
>> grub so he could access both linux and windows, he lost his /home
>> partition (it wasn't really lost, but the partition table entry wasn't
>> right so it wouldn't mount.
>>
>> After some work with a partition tool, he has recovered /home, but his
>> windows 8 partition and linux root partition are now somehow merged into
>> one - although he can still see the files on them if he boots into his
>> disk/partition tool.
>>
>> Needless to say he has bought second  drive and is dd-ing the disk on to it.
>>
>> However, he asks: does anyone have any experience with recovering disks
>> after a disaster windows install?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
>>
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