sultanoswing
February 11th, 2011, 07:06 AM
I was installing 10.10 x64 today. I wanted to manually partition the disks, since I have a /home partition from a 9.10 installation which I want to keep.
Unfortunately, I selected to convert the ext3 /home partition to ext4 and didn't realise it was formatting the partition until it had just begun. In desperation, I pulled the power plug, but now I can't access the partition (using the LiveCD) - comes with an input/output error.
What are some strategies to recover the data on the partly formatted partition? I don't think much, if any, was actually formatted.
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, I selected to convert the ext3 /home partition to ext4 and didn't realise it was formatting the partition until it had just begun. In desperation, I pulled the power plug, but now I can't access the partition (using the LiveCD) - comes with an input/output error.
What are some strategies to recover the data on the partly formatted partition? I don't think much, if any, was actually formatted.
Thanks in advance.