Re: Deleted Partition Recovery ?
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:59:52AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
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> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:12:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:35 +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote:
> > > > Hello All,
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> > > > One of my PC have two hard-disks, one is used for
> > > > Linux and other for M$ windows, My young brother
> > > > unfortunatly have deleted the partitions of that
> > > > M$ windows hard-disk and by using FDISK(DOS)
> > > > have developed a single FAT32 partition of that hard-disk.
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> some windoze version keep a backup partition table ...
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> - find a windoze nutcase(guru) to restore the original partition table
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> -- lesson
> - print out the partition table and save it on a piece
> of paper glued/taped to the disk
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> fdisk -l /dev/hda | lpr
If people are still worried about this, I think making back up binary
copy to Floppy may halp.
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 block=512 count=2
THis always gives you complete recovery for base partition.
Oh, some knopix like CD will be nice to have to use thjis.
Now d-i CD is not as easy to use for recovery.
Osamu
PS: Giving hardware access from console is sure call for trouble if your
brother or even your self are smart enough to make trouble. They can do
real damage like I have done to myself.
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