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Article #2643Reconstruct partition table.
From: Sergio
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:10
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 18:10
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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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