Re: How to restore overwritten partion table?

[Rodney Richison <rodney@rcrcomputing.com>]

Try testdisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

Note: comes on a mepis cd as well if you have one laying around.

Frank Gevaerts wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:47:51AM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
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> > Hi good people,
> > A friend inadvertently made changes to his windoze disk (partition)
> > during initial install of woody but quit afterwards before permanently
> > writing changes to the partition table. However, the original OS can
> > now not boot at all. Error on start-up is "No operating system found".
> >
> > How can I restore the original partition table so as to boot windoze
> > 2000 and salvage whatever data he had on it?
> >    
>
> Try gpart
>
> Frank
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> > There was only one partition on disk which had been taken entirely by
> > windoze. The partition was _not_ formatted after creation.
> >
> > Shall appreciate whatever help you can provide,
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Alphonse,
> > Nairobi, Kenya.
> >
> >
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