Hi there,
I installed suse linux 9.1 with the 2.6 kernel and I’ve noticed some problems with dual booting. When I boot into windows I do get my data on the C partition but I used to also have a D partition and that is gone. I still see a d -drive but when I click on it, it says that it isn’t formatted.
Look at my disk geometry:
DEVICE SIZE F TYPE MOUNT BEGIN END
/dev/hda 57.2GB 5T060H6 0 119149
/dev/hda1 30.9GB Linux native / 54841 119149
/dev/hda2 6.8GB HPFS/NTFS /windows/C 0 14199
/dev/hda3 19.5GB EXTENDED 14200 54840
/dev/hda5 16.9GB HPFS/NTFS 14201 49433
/dev/hda6 499.5GB Linux swap swap 49434 50448
So it seems the disk partitioning tool resized my D partition and put linux’s swap partition after it. So when I delete my swap partition from yast2, it deletes th whole /dev/hda5 partition. And because I have data on it, that’s NOT what I want.
So I want windows 2000 back.
What should I do? And how?
1) Can I delete the linux partitions in Yast2, first the swap and then the linux native? And then hope that windows 2000 will be able to find the lost /dev/hda5 part back?
2) Is there another way to get my windows data back?
Please help, it’s urgent.
