Partitions have disappeared!
i woke up this morning to find that all the logical partitions on my second hard drive have vanished! fdisk -l for this drive now turns up:
However, prior to shutting down last night hdb4 didn't exist and hdb3 was an extended partition containing hdb5-9 (and several distros!). Thankfully there was nothing particularly important on any of the partitions but what's happened!?
Is there any way to recover the data?
Disk /dev/hdb: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinder Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 2611 20972826 93 Amoeba /dev/hdb2 2612 7833 41945715 93 Amoeba /dev/hdb3 7834 19928 97153087+ 1f Unknown /dev/hdb4 19929 19929 8032+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
However, prior to shutting down last night hdb4 didn't exist and hdb3 was an extended partition containing hdb5-9 (and several distros!). Thankfully there was nothing particularly important on any of the partitions but what's happened!?
Is there any way to recover the data?
