On Friday, September 7, 2018 5:34:00 PM -04 Dominic Knight wrote: > Whilst trying to create one partition out of two (using disks) I > appear to have accidentally deleted the partition table of (almost) the > whole drive. It still has the swap partition and an unknown partition > of zero size apparently with 2tb of freespace. It was 10gb swap, 1tb, > 50 gb, and two at roughly 500gb each at the end. > > How do I recover the original partition table?
testdisk and gparted come to mind. A Google search turns up many HOWTOs for Linux. Before you do anything else first of all make an image of the disk by means of clonezilla-live. Then diverse methods for partition table recovery are open to you. All the best E.L.