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On 05/05/2013 16:44, Randolph Maaßen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. |
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> for some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying |
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> on sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during |
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> recovery its diskpart must have deleted the information about the 10th |
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> partition on the disk, containing my main Gentoo system. Recovery |
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> failed, but sysrescuecd still works :) |
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> Now I'm concerned about the rescueing of the partition on the SSD, is it |
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> the same way as on HDDs and are the same memory-parts of the SSD used? |
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> Or is the partiton gone forever? And when I recreate a partition, will |
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> the PV with the data still be there and readable? |
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Make a backup copy of the entire disk with one of the dd* apps around |
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then try it and see what happens. |
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Your question is not one that can really be answered better than |
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"maybe", so try it and see. The odds are on your side - Windows probably |
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just did what Windows does best (assume it's the only thing in the |
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universe) and trashed the partition table, not all the data on the disk. |
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However, do not run Windows or any software that will change the disk |
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except rescue utilities till you have rescued everything. Just in case |
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Windows _does_ decided to overwrite data |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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