> Try a mix of gpart and parted. These were the tools I used when I > destroyed my partition table just a year ago (I dd'ed a floppy image > unto my hard disk). Or you can guess via your old reliable fdisk. GPart > would try guessing the partition limits, while parted can try recreating > the partition table. Your data might still be intact as long as you > haven't committed a make filesystem to the partition being recovered.
Thanks for the reply. The problem in my case was the 63 sector offset that DM made. I needed a tool that could edit partitions down to the Heads and Sectors level. I am not aware that parted had such a tool and besides my knowledge beyond cylinders is limited. From my search on the Net I found utilities created by Svend Olaf Mikkelsen. His findpart utility will help look for partition information for dos and linux. This is very handy if you mess up your partition table and you forgot to save a copy of your partition table. With the author's help I was able to recover my linux partitions. For this type of emergencies take not of the URL below. http://home19.inet.tele.dk/svolaf/utilities.htm Thanks to all who replied. Holden _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
