Installing FC4T3 damaged my partition table

[djlauk]

Hi.

During the installation I got more or less the following message. (I'm sorry, but I paniced and clicked it away - silly me!)
Invalid partition table on /dev/hda - wrong signature 0
Invalid partition table on /tmp/hda - wrong signature 0

I didn't care before, because FC booted just fine and because everything looked really pretty I didn't notice at first. :D
But when I wanted to restore my backed up data from /dev/hda7 to /dev/hda6, where I installed FC4T3, I realized, that there is no /dev/hda7 any more.

Now I'm :mad: , because there is about one week of really good work on that partition, including my current thesis that is due soon.

Here are some further command outputs:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
omitting empty partition (7)

Platte /dev/hda: 120.0 GByte, 120034123776 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 14593 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/hda1 1 128 1028128+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 129 14592 116182080 f W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/hda5 129 131 24066 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 132 11749 93321553+ 83 Linux
sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Festplatte /dev/hda: 14593 Zylinder, 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 2104578 does not have an msdos signature
Einheit = Zylinder von 8225280 Bytes, Blöcke von 1024 Bytes, Zählung beginnt bei 0

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende #Zyl. #Blöcke Id System
/dev/hda1 0+ 127 128- 1028128+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 128 14591 14464 116182080 f W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Leer
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Leer
/dev/hda5 128+ 130 3- 24066 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 131+ 11748 11618- 93321553+ 83 Linux

parted /dev/hda print
Fehler: Ungültige Partitionstabelle auf /dev/hda - falsche Signature 0.
The above - by the way - is about the German equivalent to what I saw during the installation.

I hope somebody can tell me how to get to my data.

Best regards,

DJ

[djlauk]

Additional information:
I previously used Debian with this configuration:
/dev/hda1 swap
/dev/hda5 /boot
/dev/hda6 /
/dev/hda7 /home

It was running fine, besides the fact, that I did not get the kernel compiled the way I wanted. So I thought, I'd give FC a try.

[djlauk]

Solved it. More or less.

I managed to regain my data by using the free (free beer) data recovery software R-Linux (http://www.r-tt.com/). It runs on Windows :eek: , but hey, it got my data back!

Now I have a backup and can set things up properly again.

Cheers,

DJ