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Re: Fixing my partiotion table
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> Sam Bercovici <mantor@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > Hi, I have accidentaly erazed my partition table of my 850MB scsi disk.
> > Is there any way to recreate th partiotion table if I knowe the original
> > cylinders that were occupied by the old partition ?
> As far as I understand, if that's the _only_ thing you did, running fdisk &
> creating partitions of the same size, type and position as before should do the
> trick. But before doing so, please wait - may be I'm wrong and other people will
> correct me.
DON'T DO IT!
Running fdisk will kill the old partitions. You're gonna have to somehow
manually re-write the partition table. Do you have any type of disk
editor? Easiest thing to do would be to get a similar disk, fdisk *THAT*
disk like your old one was formatted, and run norton diskeditor on both,
entering the values from the second disk's partition table into the first.
--Ami Fischman <a540ami@pic.ucla.edu||http://pslc.ucla.edu/~a540ami>
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