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SubjectRe: [RFH] Partion table recovery
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On 20 Jul 2007, at 06:13, Al Boldi wrote:
> As always, a good friend of mine managed to scratch my partion
> table by
> cat'ing /dev/full into /dev/sda. I was able to push him out of the
> way, but
> at least the first 100MB are gone. I can probably live without the
> first
> partion, but there are many partitions after that, which I hope should
> easily be recoverable.
>
> I tried parted, but it's not working out for me. Does anybody know
> of a
> simple partition recovery tool, that would just scan the disk for lost
> partions?

parted and its derivatives are pile of crap... They cause corruption
to totally healthy systems at the best of times. Don't go near them.

Use TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) and be happy.
(-:

Best regards,

Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/


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