[ale] fedora OOPS

[Paul Cartwright]

well, I thought ( idle hands..) that I would install fedora 12 on my laptop, 
dual-boot with my existing XP, replacing ubuntu. This is an older Dell 
laptop, that had a dell partition /dev/sda2, XP NTFS partition, /dev/sda3, 
and linux / & /home & /swap partitions, /dev/sda5-6-7.

SOOooo, after trying out the fedora liveCD, it gives me this Your drive needs 
to be reinitialized, WARNING, you may lose your data.. googling, I THOUGHT 
this would be non-destructive UNTIL you get to the actual partitioning 
menu... WRONG. when it got to that menu, it showed my entire 98Gb drive as 
being freespace. I cancelled out, rebooted, and... grub-rescue, no OS.. no 
joy..
parted doesn't show anything either. I don't have a ghost image, I DO have 
backups, but, is there anything else that I could run that MIGHT be able to 
rebuild it the way it was? I can't believe fedora would actually initialize a 
drive that had DATA on it..
 
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Paul Cartwright
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