partition recovery

[blimundus]

Hello collective wisdom of the forums!

I have an intel iMac, and for some time I had a working rEFIT install with Ubuntu and OS X. For some reason, rEFIT lost track of my Ubuntu install, and I would like to recover my files. Ubuntu was my main desktop, while I used OS X for watching tv with my eyeTV, and for the OS X killer app, which is obviously Photo Booth.

Can anyone explain my partition situation and, if possible, tell me how I can mount my Ubuntu partition(s) to see whether everything is still there?

Thanks a lot.

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 243679271 Mac OS X HFS+
3 243679272 478366772 EFI System (FAT)
4 478366773 488397134 Linux Swap

Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective
2 * 409640 243679271 af Mac OS X HFS+
3 243679272 478366772 ef EFI System (FAT)
4 478366773 488397134 82 Linux swap / Solaris

 

[BigRed3373]

use the disk utility to remount the drive to check for the files if that don't work use your startup disks to access the utility drive. I hope i was some help.

 

[blimundus]

Thanks for your help. This disk utility on the OS X cd shows that there's an 'empty' partition on my harddisk of over 100 GB. That is probably where my Ubuntu install lived... Any ideas on how to take this forward? I think the files are still there, but if the disk utility thinks they are not, it's probably quite hard to access them? Thanks!

 

[cloudy123]

get back partition

You may turn to some software for help which can easily help recover partitions.I know one from my friend,that is Partition Table Doctor.You can download a free demo to have a try yourself.http://www.easeus.com/download.htm
One function of it is fixboot which can repair the boot sector when you can not access.
Goodluck!

 

[After G]

Boot from an Ubuntu liveCD and see if it'll mount the partition?