On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:24:50PM +0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> [...]
>
> Win98 is partition one. Linux is part two and NT was supposed to be
> partition three. On trying to install - it screwed the partition table
> up. Therefore, NT is not installed just now.
>
> I think the data is fine in Partition one - its just inaccessible
> because the partition info is incorrect. I really need some program that
> can "fix" this partition table entry.
What about gpart ?
$ apt-cache show gpart
shows (amongst other things):
Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions
Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a
PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is
damaged, incorrect or deleted.
.
It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and
sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical.
It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them
(using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.).
.
The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly
believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk
device.
.
Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types:
.
* BeOS filesystem type.
* FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning
scheme used on Intel platforms.
* Linux second extended filesystem.
* MS-DOS FAT12/16/32 "filesystems".
* IBM OS/2 High Performance filesystem.
* Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen).
* Linux swap partitions (versions 0 and 1).
* The Minix operating system filesystem type.
* MS Windows NT/2000 filesystem.
* QNX 4.x filesystem.
* The Reiser filesystem (version 3.5.X, X > 11).
* Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning
scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels.
* Silicon Graphics' journalling filesystem for Linux.
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Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules.
I haven't tried it myself though.
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