Ok, here's a weird one. I recently installed visual studio .NET on my laptop. It took up 2 gigs, so I decided that I wanted to reformat and make my partitions for windows a little different. Actually, before that....let me explain. I have a 12 gig HD in my laptop. I had 9 gigs for linux, and 3 for windows. I decided that I wanted to use my linux partition's space to install VS .NET, so I went into the winXP disk manager and created an NTFS out of my linux partition. My 9 gigs of linux had 3 gigs for the root directory.....so in the XP disk manager, I just reformatted and used that 3 gigs for NTFS. Everything worked fine, and I installed VS .NET, then I realized that I have made it so I can't boot linux, but I have the /home and swap partitions still defined on my harddrive (basically, I was wasting 6 gigs).
So, I went back to the disk manager, but windows couldn't detect the left over space. Weird. Ok, I want just linux now. So, I fdisk with a 98 boot disk....and guess what? It too thinks I only have 5.7gigs of space. Ok, no problem (I thought it was just because fdisk can't see linux partitions). So, I download a low-level formatting utility and let it run. When I boot back up, and try to install linux, it only sees 5.7 gigs on hda!!!!! WTF? arghhh!
Interestingly enough...with my new install of linux, my partitions are labeled:
hda1 /..........4gig
hda5 swap...1.3 gig
hda6 home...400 MB
what happened to hda2, 3, and 4??
I thought a low level format would fix it.
Any ideas on how to recover that?
So, I went back to the disk manager, but windows couldn't detect the left over space. Weird. Ok, I want just linux now. So, I fdisk with a 98 boot disk....and guess what? It too thinks I only have 5.7gigs of space. Ok, no problem (I thought it was just because fdisk can't see linux partitions). So, I download a low-level formatting utility and let it run. When I boot back up, and try to install linux, it only sees 5.7 gigs on hda!!!!! WTF? arghhh!
Interestingly enough...with my new install of linux, my partitions are labeled:
hda1 /..........4gig
hda5 swap...1.3 gig
hda6 home...400 MB
what happened to hda2, 3, and 4??
I thought a low level format would fix it.
Any ideas on how to recover that?