On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, 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?
If the disk itself is sound, probably not, but you'll need sufficient space on a functioning disk to dump a copy of the disk contents to work on. This howto I googled for and looks helpful: http://www.lkcc.org/~raimi/texts/ext2rescue.html I would appreciate a report if you get your disk going. I've got a 13gb disk filled with mp3's I need to recover, but I don't currently have 13gb free on my main disk to perform recovery surgery on the backup (saving for a 100gb disk). -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
