Fat32 logical partition recovery

[James Gray]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 11:02, Pablo Valerio Polonia wrote:
> Hi
>
> My disk had 2 fat32 partitions, a primary partition and a logical one.
>
> To create a new reiserfs partition i deleted the primary partition,
> but the logical fat32 was left untouched...
>
> This is the output from parted:
>
> Here is the output:
>
> Using /dev/hda
> (parted) p
> Disk geometry /dev/hda: 0.000-95396,273 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Beggining End Type File System Sinal
> 1 0,031 20983,337 primary fat32 lba
> 2 20983,337 26701,787 primary reiserfs
> 4 26701,787 95393,781 extended
> 6 26701,849 31949,582 logical reiserfs
> 7 31949,613 32420,236 logical linux-swap
> 5 32420,237 95393,781 logical
>
> But now i can't access the fat32 logical partition, can i recovery it?

You have 4 formatted partitions, and one empty:

Partition 1 = FAT32 (Primary)
Partition 2 = ReiserFS (Primary)
Partition 3 = ReiserFS (Logical inside the extended partition)
Partition 4 = Linux Swap (Logical inside the extended partition)
Partition 5 = Empty (Logical inside the extended partition)

Or if ASCII art is any clearer (view with a mono-spaced font):

DRIVE /dev/hda (Primary IDE on the first controller)
  |
  - Paritition 1 (FAT32)
  - Partitiion 2 (ReiserFS)
  - Logical Drive 1 (Primary Partition 3 actually)
          |
          - Partition 3 (ReiserFS)
          - Partition 4 (Linux Swap)
          - Partition 5 (Empty)

So if what you say is true, about how you modified your drive structure, I 
sure hope you have a backup.  There is no logical FAT32 partition!

Cheers,

James
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