I booted from a Ubuntu live cd to format but I used Disks to view the partitions and accidentally fast formatted the disk without saving the files to my pendrive.
Then I installed gpart
to view the start and end areas so I can restore the partitions with parted
.
sudo gpart /dev/sda
returns:
* Warning: more than 4 primary partitions: 8.
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): invalid primary
Ok.
Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 477mb #s(976896) s(6144-983039)
chs: (0/97/34)-(61/48/51)d (0/97/34)-(61/48/51)r
Primary partition(2)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 14648mb #s(29999104) s(983040-30982143)
chs: (61/48/52)-(1023/254/63)d (61/48/52)-(1928/140/4)r
Primary partition(3)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 14648mb #s(29999104) s(30982144-60981247)
chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (1928/140/5)-(3795/231/20)r
Primary partition(4)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 19531mb #s(39999488) s(60981248-100980735)
chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (3795/231/21)-(6285/193/52)r
Then I used parted
to rescue with partitions typing the start and end of this 4 partitions, the problem is the last 4 partitions that gpart
doesn't show, that partitions have all the important data.
Does someone know how to get the start and end of the 4 last partitions or other way to recover them?
testdisk
. – Pilot6 Jan 24 '17 at 21:43