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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:12:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803231612.02236.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68b1e2610803230534h6058fa73r6c434439797909aa@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 23 March 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat <pat@xvalheru.org> wrote:
> >  - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one
>
> Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?).
> Liviu

gparted is always the first choice in situations like these. The trick 
is to realize that if you recreate the partition table the way it was 
everything just comes back (assuming no destructive write to the drive 
meanwhile, like mkfs.ntfs...) so all one needs to know is where did the 
old partition end?

gparted can go hunting through a disk looking for that info

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 14:12 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
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 [this message]
2008-03-24  3:30   ` Stroller
2008-03-24 14:28     ` Enrico Weigelt

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