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
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