Trevor,
How did the disk get corrupted? Wasn't the Chernobyl Virus was it? If so,
there's a tool on http://www.grc.com that can fix it (mainly FAT32). Might
be worth getting it even if it wasn't Chernobyl.
Conor Daly
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Johnston <tjohnston at oceanfree.net>
To: ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
Date: 19 May 2000 02:26
Subject: [ILUG] Rescuing Partitions
>Hello,
>I'm trying to rescue partitions from a disk belonging to a friend of mine;
>it seems like the partition table has been corrupted and I'm assuming all
>the information is still there on the disk.
>>I've tried gpart, fdisk and a couple of other programs, but none of them
>have proved very productive.
>>Can anyone recommend a good Linux program suited to rescuing Windows 98
>partitions?
>>Thanks,
>Trevor Johnston
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