From: Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:23:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206271415.30987.12.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080323105230.M69449@xvalheru.org>
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On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the
> big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and
> now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical
> drives.
>
> Which SW should I use to recover the original partition table? I think about
> gpart, but does it has a GUI? I'm not guru at this :-\
>
> I know the next version is to format whole drive, but there are photos of his
> daughter and not backup ... .
>
> Thanks a lot for all suggestions !!!
>
> Pat
Try testdisk. It's ncurses-based and easy to use. It saved my sorry arse
twice.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 11:01 [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted pat
2008-03-23 11:08 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2008-03-23 11:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-23 11:23 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2008-03-23 18:27 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-24 14:22 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-03-23 12:18 ` pat
2008-03-23 12:34 ` Liviu Andronic
2008-03-23 14:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-24 3:30 ` Stroller
2008-03-24 14:28 ` Enrico Weigelt
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