On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:59:55 -0400, Herb Chong wrote: >no it won't. i have revived many drives with broken partition tables this >way. repartition identically to what originally was there and if the FAT >isn't corrupted too, the drive is back. there is nothing physically wrong >with the drive from his description. a FORMAT will wipe the drive, but >recreating the partition sector won't.
Be VERY CAREFULL with that. Most FDISK programs and other partitioning tools available with operating systems DELIBERATELY WIPE the bootsector for a newly created partition! They do that to avoid problems with 'old values' hanging arround, which is a legimate thing to do for NEW partitions. This is NOT what you want when recovering an existing partition! Use a partitioning tool that was DESIGNED for recovery instead. There are plenty of those ... Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery
