On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 05:06:12PM +0100, Micheal Colhoun mentioned:
> Ok, Has anyone succesfully recoverd a destroyed partition table on an ext2
> fs?
>> writing to hdb instead of hdb1 has clobbered the partiton table. The data on
> other partitions should not be affected (as in, data would not have been
> over written..). Is there a copy of the partition
> table stored elsewhere on the disk ?
There is just one copy. Would you remember the size of the partitons ? If
so, you can boot from floppy, and use fdisk to make them again. All should
be well...if you don't...well...there isn't that much you can do, without
scanning the disk with a hex editor, looking to signs of the start of a
partition..
Kate
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