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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:21:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323112133.4c532bc0@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080323105230.M69449@xvalheru.org>

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +0100, pat wrote:

> 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 ... .

Try photorec from app-admin/testdisk. It should recover most files if the
disk has not been written to since the corruption. No GUI but it does
have a man page :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 11:21 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 [this message]
2008-03-23 11:23 ` Florian Philipp
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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