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Sergio wrote:
> 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.

There is a tool called gpart 
<http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/> which has
rescued a couple of similar cases for me.

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi