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Well, I ran into this stumbling block a couple of weeks ago myself, and instead opted to use software RAID. The things is, your RAID controller isn't purely a hardware RAID controller, it's actually a hybrid of the hardware, as well as software drivers. I googled for dmraid and I think I found something that might be useful for you - http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1664

Ah, I ordered some nice stuff today: eVGA 7600GT Seagate 250GB (SATA) HDD PFU Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite2 1GB SD memory for my camera and 50ft of cat6 cable.

Erm, try typing "startx" (without the quotes).

So I presume you didn't back anything up before you tried to resize the partition? Oh bother, knew this was a baaaaaaad idea. Well, hopefully you haven't tried to mess with anything since, for that could cause problems. I'm presuming you're going to want to recover that data, which at least puts you back to square one, the point where you have your data. To get your data back, freely, try this - it worked for me, and doesn't involve stooping to piracy. To recover your data, one thing that might work is to get your hands on a copy of Knoppix, Ultimate Boot CD, or something similar. I used Knoppix. I *think* that the tool you need is included on either of those, but I'm not positive about Ultimate Boot CD. What you'll want to do, is, first get access to a command line interface, in Knoppix this can be done by running the program Konsole. Maximize the Konsole window. You'll want to type "sudo testdisk". It *should* show you a list of disks that it has detected, select the one that is your hard drive (probably /dev/hda), and press enter. In the next screen, select "Analyze", and press enter again. It should be able to recover it, if it hasn't been written over. Cross your fingers, and I hope this helps. As per else, presuming that goes well, I'd recommend in some way shape or form (CDs/DVDs, USB drives are good), backing up the data, and then proceeding.

Neither have I ... so I'm not really one to talk. Then again, I think I'm for the most part settled, and I'm considering making a stronger investment - another hard drive

Really though... don't forget to back up before you try resizing. Oh my.... bad memories resurfacing.

Hmm, yes, teenagers are broke, though a cheap network card can be got for $10, maybe less. As for installing linux, that presents a real problem if windows is taking up the entire drive. Unless you've got a really nice piece of partitioning software, the only way to install linux would probably be to repartition the drive, which would indeed lose everything. Doing that wouldn't be nice though, so it'd be a smart idea to back anything and everything you need up first ...

Through what medium are you trying to install it? (Are you installing from CD or something else?) Are you getting any sort of error messages? (If so, what?)

Age: 20 country: US 1) Yes 2) Erm, it's a satellite connection, sucks and it doesn't suck. It certainly isn't dialup, but I don't think it's good enough to be called broadband 3) Yes 4) Adventure, Arcade, FPS, Platform, Puzzle, RPG, Strategy 5) RPG 6) 14 years 7) No 11) depends, probably 12-18 12) No 13) PS2, Gamecube, SNES, N64 14) No 15) Yes 16) No 21) No (most unfortunately, as my friend says, first you must have people, then you must form the party) 24) No, but they're fun, and they keep them distracted 25) No, it's their money, they should do what they like with it 26) No, that one goes to parental irresponsibility 27) Yes It's their money now isn't it? 28) Yes, They don't force anything except for progress. To create progress sometimes things have to change. 29) Undecided 30) Only if these gamers are whack or on drugs!

Well, it looks and smells like some flavor of Debian or derivative thereof... This is a lovely problem that I've had many times.... If you're feeling daring, you could remove what it is you need to remove, making note of what else gets removed in the process. Then to re-install anything it removed that you needed (preferably quickly, logging out or rebooting before you fix things can be a bad thing).

Well, I've never worked with CentOS in particular, but many linux distributions set up a second boot option labelled recovery that logs you in single user mode as root. If you see something like this when booting up try booting into it, then typing the following passwd <yourusername> (example: passwd bob) It will prompt for the new password, then do it again. After this reboot the system in normal mode.

No need to keep looking for anything really, as TestDisk did do the job - scanned the disk and within a few clicks and a reboot I had everything back I'd have been toast if I didn't keep the data and OS on seperate partitions though.... woo, scary thoughts there. Note: As per some nice notes on TestDisk, I think you need the OS running on the same disk that you want to probe, that or it just doesn't like being run from DVD (or perhaps Knoppix in particular, who knows), or perhaps the static build just doesn't like something rather - all this is specifically why I'm lucky I had the OS on a seperate partition... still had something pretty bootable, minus my home directory). Note also: Please do remind me never to do a partition resize in QTParted ever again though, never again. [Edited by bloody on 2006-03-06 12:25:48]

I believe the specs on that one demo were that the detection would work, but if you wanted to recover you had to buy... that's what their site said anyway. I had tried TestDisk before, but didn't realize quite why it wasn't working for me at the time. Finally came to me late this morning, the part of the morning where massive amounts of sugar and caffeine are the only thing keeping me awake, to realize why it wasn't. Aparrantly it'll only scan the disk it's running from, which at the time was my dvd drive, rather than the hard drive. I'm surprised at how quickly and well it worked. I had everything back within a minute or two TestDisk seems like a great app to use.

I couldn't find anything on SystemRescue with regards to recovering a ?deleted? partition. As for the demo, I don't have a Windows install, but I could probably gain access to one... Just one thing. even if the demo worked, there's no way I would ever be able to afford the license fee.... $429 is a bit over the top.

Whooo, boy, I've got myself into a real pickle this time, and so the search for a remedy begins. I had needed to do a little partition editing, but something went wrong. Currently two of my partions are toast. The problem: 40k+ files...... gone. It was a little, okay, a lot more than I could practically back up even on DVD.. soooooo, yeah. I've not touched the partition with the data since. It was a Reiser partition..... the other has a backup of the Reiser and was an XFS partition with some other stuff on it as well. Does anybody know any software that would by chance recover a reiser (or xfs for that matter) partition? I could really use it... for now I guess I play in Knoppix until I can get my data back... Rememeber kids, QTParted is not a (fully functional) toy.