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Hi ,thought i would try fooling with SUSE personal .started a install on a 6.4 gig HDD ,cot called away from computer and didn't get back for over an HR.
it foramtted and created 3 partitions .one 450+meg primary dos ,and two nondos partition 50% each of remaing gigs ,i changed my mind,using fdisk to delete nondos partiitions and the primary ,and create new partition all i can get is the 450+meg what happened to the rest of the 6 gigs ,and how can i get it back.Thanks

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Short diagnosis and a safe plan for recovery (for )

Most likely the disk itself is still whole — what changed is the partition table, so the system only shows the small 450+ MB entry while the rest of the space is currently unallocated or listed differently. That is usually recoverable if you have not created and formatted new partitions that overwrite the old data. ’s note about resetting the table is one route, but it’s destructive unless you know exactly what was lost; prefer inspection and imaging first.

Immediate, safe steps (do not write to the drive)

  • Boot from a live/rescue environment (do not work on the installed system) and do not create or format partitions yet.
  • Make a raw backup of the start of the disk and — if the data matters — a full disk image before changing anything. Example commands (adjust device name if your disk is /dev/hda or /dev/sda): 
dd if=/dev/sdX of=~/disk-start.bin bs=512 count=1
dd if=/dev/sdX of=~/disk-image.img bs=4M conv=noerror,sync

Tools and next actions

If recovery finds the old table, write it and reboot. If nothing is found and you do not need previous data, you can create a new partition(s) to reclaim the free space. If the data is critical and the above feels uncertain, stop and get a full disk image to an external drive and consider a professional recovery service.

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try a fdisk /mbr, reboot, fdisk again and wipe the partition table. If this doesn't work, you could use a Knoppix cd to boot into a Linux environment and use the Linux version of fdisk which should get rid of the partitions.

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try a fdisk /mbr, reboot, fdisk again and wipe the partition table. If this doesn't work, you could use a Knoppix cd to boot into a Linux environment and use the Linux version of fdisk which should get rid of the partitions.

Andy

thank you,I had tried the fiirst part ,i will try the knoppix cd, i have one, will try it tomorrow

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