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In article <frobozz-2505971859100001@slbri2p64.ozemail.com.au>,
	frobozz@ozemail.com.au (Adam Eberbach) writes:
> I have accidentally repartitioned a hard disk using fdisk and if it's
> possible I have to reverse the actions. 
> 
The trick is going to be figuring out where the old partitions started and
stopped.  If you know that, you can use *Linux* fdisk to reverse the
actions and put it back.

I had a virus eat my partition table once.  Since I didn't know much about
viruses, and since I have a record of my partition layout, I did as I 
suggested and was back up.

If you don't know where the partition started and stopped, you are going to
need to look for the parition headers.  I don't remember what they look
like.  What I'd do, is get a different hard disk and partition it.  Then
look to see what the headers look like.

Note: when you think you have properly marked a Linux file system, use
fsck -n (no updates) to see if you really have.  This implies that you have
a working Linux system loaded to another drive on the computer (or have
a rescue floppy with fsck).
-- 
Hugh McCurdy