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From: Mark Knudson <mrk@rochester.rr.com>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Emergency: Is there a way to fix a partition table
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:22:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4159D618.30206@rochester.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <231dafb504092622352b9c17d2@mail.gmail.com>

Dark Shadow wrote:
> I don't have a backup of the partition table and was wondering if
> there was a way to auto scan and have it come up with one. It had 2
> partitions both reiserfs v3 and fully functioning Linux installs
> 
> I have made a dd image of the entire drive to work with
> 
> This is very important that I get it fixed since even though I have a
> day old backup I got a couple files I really don't want to lose (9gb
> of tv capturecard captures)and I need the system fully functioning in
> a day
> 
> 
> current output of table from fdisk
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   ?       21975      164058  1074152739    0  Empty
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda2   ?      168574        9274   943175203   be  Solaris boot
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda3   ?      201952       44474   956950144    0  Empty
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda4   ?           1           1           0   4f  QNX4.x 3rd part
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> 

About a year ago I trashed my partition table.
I used a program called testdisk that searched the disk and 
reconstructed a new one for me. Check out the following link.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html






      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-28 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27  5:35 Emergency: Is there a way to fix a partition table Dark Shadow
2004-09-27  6:56 ` Sonny Rao
2004-09-28  6:28   ` Dark Shadow
2004-09-28 18:39     ` Sonny Rao
2004-09-27 17:11 ` Chris Mason
2004-09-28 21:22 ` Mark Knudson [this message]

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