On Monday 07 April 2008, pat wrote:

> Well, yes and no :-( The partition table of the original table has
> crashed, so I've created the ISO image of the disk and now playing
> with it ... but, the original drive is still untouched. So, I should
> play with hard drive directly instead using the dd copy? To partition
> table recovery in the ISO image I've used the testdisk utility.
>
> Any suggestions?

To be safe I would mount the .iso devices read-only till you are sure
you have found the correct offsets. Only use the original disk if you
really have no other option



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