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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:22:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080324142235.GA10053@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206271415.30987.12.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ>

* Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:

> Try testdisk. It's ncurses-based and easy to use. It saved my sorry arse
> twice.

ACK. If *just* the partition table is lost, but no damage inside
the individual partitions, testdisk can easily reconstruct it
but looking for superblocks (even w/ FAT). 
Used it several times successfully.

Testdisk folks did a great work :)

cu
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-24 14:23 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
2008-03-23 18:27   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-24 14:22   ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
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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