Re: Recovery of Linux after a problem windows 8 install

Woohoo big party at matts place.
Not sure if any of your had drives are seagates.? They can be dodgy.
I struck some of those windiz systems with all the primary drive partitions
full so you can't install anything.... unless you juggle some to be logical
drives. Very frustrating.
Cheers
Geoff
On Mar 15, 2014 9:16 AM, "Smegzor" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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