Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:14:56 +0200 | From | bert hubert <> | Subject | Re: Invalid partition table, 1st entry [OFFTOPIC] |
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On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 02:11:06PM -0400, John Kacur wrote:
> Does anyone know how to restore a hard drive's partition table. I messed > it up, trying to put FreeBSD on hda, with Linux already on hdb. When I > run /sbin/lilo to install lilo on hda, I get the message.
There are several tools out there which attempt to recover your partition table. http://www.google.com and http://freshmeat.net may be of assistance. I presume that this recovery is done by scanning the disk and looking for appropriate magic values.
Regards,
bert hubert.
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