There is a software called Easy Recovery Pro 5.0 (Windows only) from
Ontrack.(www.ontrack.com). A trial version that can recover just a limited
amount of files is available from their website, though you can get a
cracked version from Astalavista.
You will require another harddisk with Windows loaded on it to copy the
recovered files. When Easy Recovery is run, it will search your harddisk for
partitions and display the starting and ending sectors. Divide this number
by 16065 and round it off to get the cylinder number. Now use Linux fdisk to
recreate the partitions and then change the partition type. Using this
method, I was able to recover all the data in one case. Booting from a
floppy showed me the data, but DOS fdisk showed no partitions. fdisk /mbr
solved
this. In another case, I was able to recover all extended partitions while I
used Easy Recovery for recovering data of the primary partition. However, in
this case, some data was corrupted.
Also, I think that the file boot.300 (or some other number depending upon
which harddisk contains DOS) in /boot may store your DOS bootsector and
partition information. LILO makes a backup if it replaces the DOS
bootsector.
> My machine has two HDs (hda and hdc)
> hda has Linux, hdc is win95+NT
> Does anyone know how to recover the data/or just the partition tables?
> The only limitation is that all work *must* be done in a space of 40MB
> for a HD of 4GB partitioned into 4 partitions of 1GB each.
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