>On the weekend I was making an attempt to install Debian on an old IDE
>drive in a friends PC and in using fdisk I somehow seem to have snarfed the
>partition table.  I'm not sure what I did (it was late and I should have
>been in bed) but now any attempt to use fdisk on the disk complains that
>the partition table is not readable.
>I believe the disk is physically okay but I don't know any way of
>unsnarling it.

When this problem has come up before this utility was said to be very good :

http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

Never used it myself but looks ok from the webpage, and has worked for
others.

Good luck

-i
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