> Testdisk can't see anything. The gpart program sees the partition, but
> it will not write back to the disk, or to the iso ( needs a physical
> disk device ), or ( surprisingly ) to the .iso written back to another
> disk.

Not particularly clever, but does it show you the block numbers of the
partition starts? That's all you need to make a new partition table with
fdisk or cfdisk, or to copy out the individual filesystems.

If fdisk doesn't want to operate on disk image files, create the table
on a real disk (preferably same model) and transplant the first block
with dd.

Btw drop the word "ISO" here, that is specifically referring to a
filesystem in ISO9660 format, which you don't have on your dead hard
disk.

Volker

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