[Ubuntu-PH] Hard Disk Partition Issue

[ar ber]

Hi Rick and to anyone who can help:
 
I got some problems with my disk partition here and couldn't find a way to resolve it. Here's a little history to consider:
 
1) I was running a dual boot computer - Windows XP (Italian) and the latest Ubuntu (english). I wanted to format an empty 80 GB external disk to FAT32 using UBUNTU. With that disk mounted, fdisk command gave this information then:
 
/dev/sda0
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda5
 
where: sda0 to sda4 were partitions of the internal disk and the /dev/sda5 was the external disk.
 
2) I tried doing several suggestions I found in the Ubuntu knowledge database about formatting hard disks but wasn't succeeding. Playing with some commands at the terminal  (I don't exactly remember now each one -- but that was like "cxformat" or something like that) I did succeed to change the format. This resulted in me being unable to start my pc from windows. Worst, I could not anymore access my data partition d:
 
3) I tried correcting the problem with a GRUB Floppy disk but it was not working. So I finally decided to reinstall windows in the same partition. After the reinstallation, windows can detect now 4 partitions but can open only one where the windows OS is installed. The system information I find is something like this:
 
     9,32
    18,02
C:) 19,53
D:) 29,45
 
where: C:) is the Windows OS system partition; D:) is the original Data partition which I cannot access and the first two, I suppose are the partition dedicated to UBUNTU.
 
Furthermore, I couldn't ran my UBUNTU OS anymore!
 
4) I tried running the Ubuntu liveCD. Fdisk in UBUNTU now detects the following disk information:
 
/dev/hda1                   HDFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2     2551       LINUX
/dev/hda3     3767       Extended
/dev/hda4     6120       HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5     3767       LINUX/SWAP

 
I suppose  HPFS/NTFS is my D: data disk for windows. UBUNTU can access the data of all partitions except that of /dev/hda4. It says it is not mounted. I tried to do force mounting but it still fails to mount.
 
Anyone who can help please so I can recover my precious data?
 
Thanks,
 
 
Arnel


      
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