Remember when I was saying how my Linux machine keeps getting worse? I’d fix one problem and another one would surface, more severe than the previous? Well, the last problem had required the reinstallation of the entire operating system, so I thought it was downhill from there.
I was wrong.
I took the precaution of turning off the 3GB hard drive in the BIOS (which is the hard drive which contained all of the important data on Habitrail), which in retrospect I should have physically disconnected and powered off just to be sure. So I finally got one of the network cards working (or so I thought, turns out it’s still not routing or something) so I figured the time had come to move the old data onto the new drives.
I then discover, after re-enabling the hard drive, that I’ve somehow managed to wipe the partition table on it.
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Technically, this is a recoverable error. I’ve backed up the entire hard drive into two big files, so that I can always step back to this moment in time. Now, I just have to see if I can remember what the partitions were… ARGH.