-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 03:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Boot with the Ultimate Boot CD, pick the partition recovery option, and > let the program restore the partition table. As long as you have not > created new partitions, chances are good that it will find the correct > partition start and size. Once you create new partitions, you give it > more possibilities. You also run the risk that the new partitions will > overlap what you are trying to save. Then you wipe out some of the > information needed to recover the partition when you format. > > Now, if you want to make recovery easy in case you ever do this again, > you can also write a copy of the partition table to a floppy, and > restore it from floppy if the table ever gets damaged. The tools to do > it are on the CD. It is a must for any geek's tool box. > Mikkel, last year I had a cpu fan fail that caused problems with my hdds. After my struggle to recover data I started a TWiki page on DataRecovery. Unfortunately, and ironically, this is the only page that I am aware of that was not recovered when the TWiki was lost - and I had not saved a copy of the file. I tried to do it again from memory, but it is sketchy at best, and of course only deals with the problems I had.
Could you spare time to do an addition about using these tools? I think it would be invaluable. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCGgWkFAvMr/nNX8RAir6AJ9LBxWUGqnsLxILfqdN4pmKKysPkQCgkKZC Nwr79M1DD0PwcZNUzgXNJw0= =ULWX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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