Re: Recovery of Linux after a problem windows 8 install

Its a 2TB Sata WD black.  I'm pretty sure that Windows did it rather 
than a defect, but I don't know why Windows would be messing with my 
partition table when I specifically told which partition to use.  This 
has never happened before and it has happened to other people installing 
Windows 8 according to Google.

Matt

On 15/03/14 09:23, Geoff Barkman wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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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