Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >- is the photorec able to search data in this partition table > >corruption level? > > Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just looks at the > bits on the drive and saves any collection of said bits which match > specification for a jpe

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try testdisk. It's ncurses-based and easy to use. It saved my sorry arse > twice. ACK. If *just* the partition table is lost, but no damage inside the individual partitions, testdisk can easily reconstruct it but looking for superblocks (even w/ FAT)

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Mar 2008, at 12:18, pat wrote: Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think Yes. - is the photorec able to search data in this partition table corruption level? Read the tool's homepage. But I'm pretty sure it just look

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag, 23. März 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS > > (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition > > table and now there are two lin

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 23 March 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one > > Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). > Liviu gparted is always the first choice in situations like t

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread pat
Couple of other questions and situation update: - there were not writes to the disk - this is good I think - the original disk division was 120GB (NTFS) and 40GB (FAT32) - the fat was the first one - and now the sizes are different (the first one around 30GB and the rest) - is the photorec able to

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote: > Hello, > > My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the > big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and > now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical > d

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +0100, pat wrote: > My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS > (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition > table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the > previous logical drives. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:01:08PM +0100, pat wrote: > My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the > big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and > now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical >

[gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread pat
Hello, My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the previous logical drives. Which SW should I use to recover the original parti