At 23 August, 2003 Mark Huson wrote: > I recently switched a harddrive that i use to hold data from one gentoo comp > to another. When i try to mount the harddrive though it gives the standard > mount error. I then tried to check the partitions and when i try to start > cfdisk i get "no partition table or unknown signiture on partition table do > you wish to start with a zero table." I then tried to put the harddrive back > in its original computer to mount it there and i get the same problem. I > can't erase my data. I also have a second harddrive that can hold all of the > data of the bad one if there is a way to copy it over.
The error suggests that the partition table's been corrupted. If you can remember how the disk was laid out -- what the partitions were, what order they were in, what types they were, and how big they were -- then I think there's a way you can rewrite the table. I would guess that you could probably just re-enter the data in cfdisk or similar, but I'm not sure. Can anyone back me up on this? (I don't have any spare hard drives to try this on...) -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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