I think it possible to recover the files in the partitions wiped by the Fedora installer. Testdisk correctly found the partitions I want to recover, but it says they are corrupted (stop). A commercial trial software showed it can recover the file tree of one partition and the raw files of the other partition. But at $90, Yikes! Is there any cheaper solution to try? I'll also have to buy a 320 GB hard disk to save the recovered files to and sort them out. What did the Fedora installer do to these partitions? Garrick On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:49:27 -0800, "Garrick Sitongia" <sitongia@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > I just installed Fedora for the first time on my Windows/Linux dual boot > system. The Fedora installer gave me the option of installing over the > present linux installation on the disk, an old Mandriva version. I > assumed this meant the operating system partition. There were 2 other > unrelated ext3 partitions for photo archives and e-mail backup. After > booting into Fedora I discovered that the Fedora installer wiped every > linux partition without confirmation or consent. I have installed other > versions of Linux and I have always been given a choice. Your installer > should indicate that ALL linux type file systems will be wiped, in > addition to the operating system file system. > > Garrick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
