From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdPAq-0000nf-QY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:19:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 871E8E0762; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pipni.cz (mail.pipni.cz [193.86.238.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594FEE0762 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:18:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pipni.cz ([193.86.238.3] helo=xvalheru.org) id 1JdPAA-0001zq-JP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:18:58 +0100 From: "pat" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:18:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20080323115635.M31359@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <20080323105230.M69449@xvalheru.org> References: <20080323105230.M69449@xvalheru.org> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20061019 X-OriginatingIP: 213.195.242.250 (pat@xvalheru.org) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: b093c0f5-6aee-4b25-9c1f-1935d8ba6365 X-Archives-Hash: c7ac02fb81dc9e625e5231ca2bd7b342 Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think - the original disk division was 120GB (NTFS) and 40GB (FAT32) - the fat was the first one - and now the sizes are different (the first one around 30GB and the rest) - is the photorec able to search data in this partition table corruption level? - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Thanks a lot Pat On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list