If you play around with your disk partition…. I think I need not tell what will be your condition later. Okay, Let me give you a free solution to solve such problems in future. Try this Gnu tool called testdisk. Its free and its just awesome.
Don’t break much head on your partitions, boot your system with any Linux distribution Live CD (I bet, its easy to go with Ubuntu/Linux Mint). Connect your system to network while you’re booted into LiveCD. Open the gnome-terminal and run the following command to install testdisk.
sudo aptitude install testdisk
Once this is done, sudo testdisk /dev/[diskname] (For ex: sda) will start the tool.
Read more about testdisk here :
TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
