Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}

[SW]

Hi Reuben:

> > I'm not sure what this means, but if I select the 'w' option, will this
> > destroy my data on this drive?
>
> Yes, but from what you told us from the output of fdisk, your data is
probably
> not retrievable or already anyway, at least recovering it is not going to
be
> easy.

The data is fine on my drive. fdisk doesn't show any partitions but I can
retrieve and write data to the drive. fstab mounts it fine...I just
sometimes can't umount the drive because I get device busy, even though
nothing is writing to the hard drive.

>
> > Also if I try to do the print option in
> > fdisk, it doesn't show the ext3 partition I created:
> ...
> > Could my problem be
> > that I ran a program which screwed up my partition table? I ran parted
> > which told me to run e2fsck due to a problem and then I ran fsck.ext3.
Can
> > any of these programs destroy my partitions?
>
> Probably..
>
> > What should I do now?
>
> Assuming you can afford loosing the data there (for good), I'd just start
> over. Here is a step by step guide to create ext3 partition.
>
>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-filesystem-ext3-create.html

I really don't want to start over as of right now the drive data is fine.
I'll use the steps you provided as a last resort when the *#$% hits the fan.
;-)

Thanks,

SW



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