On 28 Nov 2016 20:12, "David Wright" <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > The most important thing in this situation is not to panic. > It's quite possible that only two things have been altered: > the Master Boot Record may have been overwritten, and the > partition types may have been altered in the absence of any > other changes, in particular to their contents. > > So it should be worth booting from a live linux CD to mount the > partitions to check their contents, and to reinstall Grub > (or whatever you use to boot) into the MBR. (Modify the latter > if you have a EFI disk rather than MBR.) > > Note that Linux used to use the same GUID as a Microsoft Basic Data > Partition so these could be relict, or set by MS as a convenient > "bucket" value. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_basic_data_partition > > Cheers, > David.
I'd suggest Supergrub. Great tool, and I've used it a number of times to recover partition tables that I messed up. There's other options though... Chris
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