Hi

  After trying gpart with no good results, I have downloaded an
installed testdisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html)
and e2fsprogs (http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net). I've been able to
rescue entirely my disk.

Tanks a lot to all.

Hoyt a �crit :
> 
> On Thursday 06 June 2002 12:09 am, Brian Parish wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:55, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> > > My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power
> > > down.
> > >
> > > if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk
> > > /dev/hda -l you should be able to rebuild the partition table.
> > >
> > > Of course having a copy of the MBR would make life easier
> > >
> > > dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-hda.mbr count=1 bs=512
> >
> > Good idea.  I'll do that for all my machines and spread copies around my
> > LAN.  I presume that to restore the MBR from one of these backups, it's
> > just a matter of reversing the "if" and "of", or is there something else
> > required?
> >
> 
> That bit of code also restores the bootloader, which is OK if it hasn't
> changed. Just in case, it's always  a good idea to keep a boot floppy as
> well.
> 
> --
> Hoyt
> 
> http://www.maximumhoyt.com
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
> Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

-- 
Laurent BOULEAU
Universit� de Reims
Centre de Ressources Informatiques
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel : 0326913127

Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to