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Article #2642Re: Reconstruct partition table.
From: GaRRaPeTa
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:45
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:45
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Hi all. Thanks a lot for your replies. I downloaded TestDisk (www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html) as Andreas adviced me. I executed it and it found by 5 partitions. It seems it scans the HD looking for the heading of quite a lot filesystems. I have recovered all the data and I can boot from that HD in both the Win XP and the Linux partition, so everything it's OK again. Thanks for your replies. Regards "Sergio" <no@no.com> escribi๏ฟฝ en el mensaje news:iXJvc.263708$Rc.7235289@news-reader.eresmas.com... > Hi all. > First of all, please excuse me is this is a offtopic in this NW. I've tried > to choose the proper NW to ask this and not crosspot. Excuse me also for my > bad English. > > My problem is that i have overwritten the partition table of my HD. > It was a 120 GB HD with several partitions: > > 1-NTFS with Win Xp > 2-NTFS with data > 3-boot Linux > 4-swap Linux > 5-native Linux. > > I don't remember either the exact size of each partition or the exact > begginig point of each partition in the HD. > > Trying to install MSDOS, my partition table has been ruined. Now, running > appls such as fdisk, I see the HD like an unformatted 2 GB partition and lot > of unpartitioned free space. > The data should be still there, because I have'nt formated or delete > anything on the disk. So, the real problem is that due to the new partition > table I just can't view the data. > > I've searched on the net and old messages in the newsgroups. It seems that > there are quite a few applications to recover a partition table from a > backup file wich contains the data of how the old partition table was. > Problem is that I did not make a backup file. > > Perhaps is out there any kind or application wich scans the HD, and in > function of the data it finds, it can guess where a partition is beggining > and where is ending, so it can reconstruct me the partition table. > Do you know about any other program to fix it?? > I don't care about the Ext-2 partitions, but I need to recover the NTFS > partitions. > > Remember: I've not formatted the HD, but I have no info about the exact > point where the partiotions begun, and I don't remember their exact size. > > Thanks a lot. Hope anyone know about some program to fix it. > Regards. > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f5f89,c40e757d81706975 X-Google-Thread: fc9ab,c40e757d81706975 X-Google-Thread: faa64,c40e757d81706975 X-Google-Thread: 102b32,c40e757d81706975 X-Google-Thread: 109530,c40e757d81706975 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,gidfc9ab,gidfaa64,gid102b32,gid109530,public Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.espanix.net!62.81.31.29.MISMATCH!cyclone.auna.com!news-feeder.eresmas.com!news-reader.eresmas.com!not-for-mail From: "GaRRaPeTa" <no@no.com> Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,es.comp.os.linux.instalacion References: <iXJvc.263708$Rc.7235289@news-reader.eresmas.com> Subject: Re: Reconstruct partition table. Lines: 70 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <HM1wc.264282$Rc.7314051@news-reader.eresmas.com> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:45:18 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.83.168.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@eresmas.com X-Trace: news-reader.eresmas.com 1086367911 62.83.168.74 (Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:51:51 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:51:51 MET DST Organization: eresMas