Grub Unknown filesystem

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#1

Hi. Im new to the forum, still having the count long ago
My problem is the next> I had opensuse 13.1 installed on my notebook samsung np270 for a year aprox. But yesterday I wanted to install windows7 and run both. I couldnt partition with Gparted so I just put the windows7 iso and hoped to partition from there, in the installation. But I commited the mistake of runing the installation over the ext4 partition where I had my data and thougt it was going to get formatted, soy I click on the cancel icon y and close the installation. Then in the reboot, voila, the system redirects right to the grub with the message

unknown filesystem
rescue GRUB>

I have tried some methods but all are related to another OS, like mint, ubuntu or windows itself. Im very losed here, at least I want to recover my data, but I dont know any recover software running on knoppix actually using it. Any help to solve this trouble is very, very welcomed. :):):slight_smile:

ps> sorry for the redaction, the keyboard is unconfigured so I cant spell many symbols, and english is not my native language either.

#2

Your obvious choice is http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage.

#3

You definitely screwed the pooch. Windows does not know or care about any other OS except itself. Never use it to change/move/re-size any other type of file system. So a little hind sight You could have used Yast to re-size and move the partitions as needed. Also maybe you could have run Windows in a Virtual machine like VirtualBox. Also BTW never ever do modifications to partitions with out backing up first . These things happen and you now have some serious rescuing to do. I concurs with John and say get you a rescue disk. DO NOT CHANGE OR MODIFY ANYTHING else until you get the data off the drive.

#4

… also, one should NEVER, EVER, ABSOLUTELY EVER do such things without FIRST doing a backup.:frowning: