Crash Corse in Partition Recovery

Crash Corse in Partition Recovery

[Corey McGuire]

Hey all,

I was updating my system's bios and my drives got reordered.  When I
went to nuke my Windows drive, I missed and hit my swap and reiserfs
drive.  I was wondering if there is a web sight that gives step by
step instructions for recovery, or if you guys had a silver bullet
method for findind the begining and ends of a partition.  I don't
remember the exact size of my swap, but I know it came first.  Nothing
has happened since I messed up the partition table and I ran "DD" so I
have an image of the drive for safe exploration.

Thanks!

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Re: Crash Corse in Partition Recovery

[Sander Sweers]

On 10/18/06, Corey McGuire <coreyfro@coreyfro.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I was updating my system's bios and my drives got reordered.  When I
> went to nuke my Windows drive, I missed and hit my swap and reiserfs
> drive.  I was wondering if there is a web sight that gives step by
> step instructions for recovery, or if you guys had a silver bullet
> method for findind the begining and ends of a partition.  I don't
> remember the exact size of my swap, but I know it came first.  Nothing
> has happened since I messed up the partition table and I ran "DD" so I
> have an image of the drive for safe exploration.

If only the partitions have been deleted you can recreated them with
fdisk if you know the start and end of the partition. But much easier
is to use testdisk [1]. It helped me out when windows decided my lvm2
partitions needed an update with junk. There is a statically linked
version on [2].

Greets
Sander

[1] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
[2] http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.4.linuxstatic.tar.bz2

Re: Crash Corse in Partition Recovery

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Corey McGuire wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I was updating my system's bios and my drives got reordered.  When I
> went to nuke my Windows drive, I missed and hit my swap and reiserfs
> drive.  I was wondering if there is a web sight that gives step by
> step instructions for recovery, or if you guys had a silver bullet
> method for findind the begining and ends of a partition.  I don't
> remember the exact size of my swap, but I know it came first.  Nothing
> has happened since I messed up the partition table and I ran "DD" so I
> have an image of the drive for safe exploration.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

gpart might help

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

Re: Crash Corse in Partition Recovery

[Thomas Bittermann]

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Corey McGuire schrieb:
> Hey all,
> 
> I was updating my system's bios and my drives got reordered.  When I 
> went to nuke my Windows drive, I missed and hit my swap and reiserfs 
> drive.  I was wondering if there is a web sight that gives step by 
> step instructions for recovery, or if you guys had a silver bullet 
> method for findind the begining and ends of a partition.  I don't 
> remember the exact size of my swap, but I know it came first.
> Nothing has happened since I messed up the partition table and I ran
> "DD" so I have an image of the drive for safe exploration.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
i had some succes-stories with testdisk:

"TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily
designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks
bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software,
certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting
your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really
easy."

... found on http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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