Re: Recovery of Linux after a problem windows 8 install

Oh yes it was very hard.  I went to bed and browsed the internet.

Viv says definitely!!  I'll give you a call later today.  I'm off to the 
community garden until noon.

Matt

On 15/03/14 09:29, Kathinka wrote:
> 10 hours!  Aaaaghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Congrats on good result, 
> you deserve it after that perseverance.
>
> Dif.topic:
> You & Viv interested in making quince jelly or anything else from 
> quinces?  Good crop this year here.  Pls respond soon, I'm rehoming 
> them as soon as possible because running out of tubs, buckets, space.
>
> I'm making a brew of ginger jam because of tasting a smidge of rhubarb 
> & ginger someone gave David, the base of mine being apples, pears and 
> rhubarb, so far awaiting its final boil-up to jam consistency and 
> tasting good.  Time will tell.
>
> If not interested in fruit for yrselves can you supply jam making 
> Valley coordinator, please?  I've lost the newsletter.
>
> Kathinka.
>
>
> On 15 March 2014 09:16, 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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