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Re: Worst case scenario - erased my partition table



There's a DOS based program called findpart that may help. You can find 
it here:

http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm

If you do a search on Deja News for findpart, you'll find some posts on
it, and some are answered by the author that may help explain how to
best use it.

There's also a Linux program called gpart (guess partitions).

> Hi there,
> 
> It's certainly unpleasent: I have a dual boot machine which I wanted to
> change it's Win98 to Win98 OSR2. somehow in the process I booted the Dos
> v6.22 original disskette and it kindly, unpromptly, simply discarded all
> of my H.D. partition table ! (some of the other linux partitions where
> on an extended partition and the primary boot partition was a FAT32 -
> that's perhaps why it did so).
> 
> Anyway, I'm left with a nice useless H.D without it's partition table,
> but all the data, at least on the Linux partitions, is safe & sound. 
> I tried Norton Disk Doctor (NDD) latest version but although it's manual
> says it will reconstruct erased/damaged partition tables, its searching
> and reviving only DOS partitions (FAT/FAT32), leaving me without the
> Linux partitions.
> 
> I dont need to the data on the windows partitions (which was partially
> formatted anyway), and - thats important - I have another dual boot
> machine which I can connect the H.D. to to use other Linux or Dos
> utilities.
> Could you advise me on how to revive my disk ? perhaps Linux/Unix
> utilities ?
> 
> TIA,
> Boaz.
> 
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