Recovery

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Sunday 28 January 2007 13:45, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 3:19 pm, Lokeey wrote:
> > how so exactly?
> >
> > what i did prior to posting was install kubuntu on one of my other
> > partitions on my 2nd HDD to see if i could extract the data some how, but
> > i'm not sure exactly what to do?
>
> Did you format the partition, or just delete it?  If you formatted it, I
> have no idea how to recover the data.  If you deleted it, and if you can
> figure out what its boundaries used to be, you can re-create it using
> sfdisk.  I did this several  years ago, but I no longer remember enough of
> the details to give you a set of instructions.  It was really complicated,
> and not at all for the faint of heart.  I had some uberguru taking me by
> the hand, and I'm not enough of a guru to turn around and extend the same
> hand back to you, I'm afraid.
OK, you've now crossed over into the realm of super nerds, whereby even 
regular nerds steal your lunch money and throw rocks at you.
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre