On Sunday 27 June 2010 13:30:50 T o n g wrote: > quick scan An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui
You can use the same strategy for partition tables as data ...backups. 'fdisk -l /dev/xxxx' > partition_table.txt, Then use fdisk to create partitons again. This will write a new partition table and formating is not part of this process. I have recovered deleted partitions this way ,never had to do a whole hard drive. I found this that has more detail: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006271537.31696.gomadtr...@gci.net