From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:27:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803231927.47640.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206271415.30987.12.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ>
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> 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.
++
mine once.
testdisk is a very good tool.
try systemrescuecd
http://www.sysresccd.org
which has testdisk in an even newer version than gentoo.
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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 [this message]
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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