Java Mailing List Archive

http://www.redhatconfig.com/

Home » Gentoo Linux »

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

Florian Philipp

2008-03-23

Replies: Find Java Web Hosting

Author LoginPost Reply

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 12:01 +0100, pat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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 ... .
>
> Thanks a lot for all suggestions !!!
>
>    Pat

Try testdisk. It's ncurses-based and easy to use. It saved my sorry arse
twice.

Attachment: signature.asc (zipped)
©2008 redhatconfig.com - Jax Systems, LLC, U.S.A.