Re: partition table lost
Can you still boot linux with a boot disk? I had a messed up partition
table at one stage (but not as messed up as your friend's) but linux
could still distinguish the partitions and read all of the data on both
windows and linux partitions (windows couldn't read anyting after
booting from a floppy). I didn't manage to restore the partition table
successfully, but I did back up all of my important stuff so I could
reformat and reinstall windows.
Brian Butler wrote:
>
> A friend's box which had a bunch of partitions on its single 3 GB hard disk,
> including Win3 (fat16) win95 (fat32) and some linux partitions.
>
> Stupid McAfee messed up the partition table trying to remove the so-called
> NYB virus (the virus removal was evidently successful).
>
> Now there is only one partition, /dev/hda1, not even close to the size of
> the disk, or any of the old partitions. I'm SURE all the old Linux stuff,
> etc. is still on the disk.
>
> Question is: How do we get the partion table to look like it did before, to
> get at all the partitions, as well fix the active one, etc.
>
> Partition Magic was suggested. What are the thoughts on this? It's
> appartently not free, and apparently run under windoze.
>
> Basically, the goal here is to recreate the old partition table without
> having a copy of it, but having a disk that mostly looks like it did before
> it got "fixed" ("cleaned") by McAfee.
>
> TIA,
>
> --Brian Butler
>
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