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Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

Neil Bothwick

2008-03-23

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:01:08 +0100, pat wrote:

> My brother has a second disk where was two partitions formated as NTFS
> (the big one) and FAT32 (small one), but something brakes the partition
> table and now there are two linux partition tables +/- the size of the
> previous logical drives.
>
> Which SW should I use to recover the original partition table? I think
> about gpart, but does it has a GUI? I'm not guru at this :-\
>
> I know the next version is to format whole drive, but there are photos
> of his daughter and not backup ... .

Try photorec from app-admin/testdisk. It should recover most files if the
disk has not been written to since the corruption. No GUI but it does
have a man page :)


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