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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
Ok - I will add it to my ToDo list. I guess I had better do it in OO first, so it can check my spelling!
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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