mount slave drive

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Chris Aitken wrote:

> I guess the fedora 7 installation ignored my request to leave that drive 
> alone...

I agree with Tyler.  It is quite unlikely that an installer would 
over-write the partition table of a disk you asked it not to touch or 
create a zero length partition without asking.  Such a serious bug would 
get fixed quickly and would be big news (unless the circumstances in which 
is occured were really obscure).

More likely the partition table became corrupt for some other reason. 
I've seen bad connections between the controller and the disk destroy 
partition tables.  The partition table can collapse due to problems with 
the disk too.

The good news is that if the data is still there and it is only the 
partition table which is bad the recovery tools I mentioned earlier stand 
a decent chance of recovering data for you.

Cheers,

Rob

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