Re: Fix partition order killed my hard drive (twice)

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>]

On Monday 13 April 2015, Sergey Zolotarev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible that fdisk could damage / kill a hard drive after
> using the "Fix partition order" command?

I remember there was such bug in past. Which version are you using?
$ fdisk -V

> It seems that that is 
> exactly what happened to me two times already, with two different
> hard drives.
>
> First time I thought that it was my hard drive's fault as it was
> pretty old and cheap, So I bought a new not-so-cheap one and was
> quite happy with until today, when I used that evil command again!
>
> Both of HDDs seem unrecoverable. When either is plugged BIOS gets
> stuck at initial screen (can't even enter setup). Using a USB adapter
> didn't help either... I'm not an expert in hard drives, but could it
> be the result of a corrupted / bad sector in the place where the
> partition table is stored?

First I would try to boot via rescue CD or similar. 
Then check how the partitiontable looks now (fdisk -l) and try to mout 
partitions manually. If you are missing partitions or if you just can't 
mount them then you may try to repair/recover the partition table.  

cu,
Rudi