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From: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Crash Corse in Partition Recovery
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:54:58 +0100
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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/