Messages in this thread | | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [RFH] Partion table recovery | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:35:45 +0100 |
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On 20 Jul 2007, at 06:13, Al Boldi wrote: > As always, a good friend of mine managed to scratch my partion > table by > cat'ing /dev/full into /dev/sda. I was able to push him out of the > way, but > at least the first 100MB are gone. I can probably live without the > first > partion, but there are many partitions after that, which I hope should > easily be recoverable. > > I tried parted, but it's not working out for me. Does anybody know > of a > simple partition recovery tool, that would just scan the disk for lost > partions?
parted and its derivatives are pile of crap... They cause corruption to totally healthy systems at the best of times. Don't go near them.
Use TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) and be happy. (-:
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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