The partition table is only the first 512 bytes of the disk. Provided you haven't written to any new partitions (just deleted existing partitions and created new ones) then your disk is entirely recoverable. ***As soon as you change the data on the filesystems, (or anything else outside the partition table) things become harder to recover***. So don't.
Google for a utility called `gpart'. This will guess your partition table from your disks contents and attempt to restore it to its old self. Alternatively, if you had a pretty simply partitioning scheme (eg, 1 partition on 1 disk) then you can just recreate it yourself. Either way, once your partition table is restored, you can mount the old partitions as normal. Now send me those Linux desktop stories damnit! Mike On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:26, David Fisher wrote: > Evenin' all, > > 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. > > Is My Disk Ruined? > > Are there any utilities out there (and I'm not bothered about using > commercial stuff for THAT OS if I have to) that will rescue it? > > -- > > David > > > > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
