On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:23:58AM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 09.47, Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > 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,
>
> Something like this in a monthly cron script or whatever may help in the
> future if it would ever happen again.
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda > ~/partition-tables.list
> fdisk -l /dev/hdb > ~/partition-tables.list
> fdisk -l /dev/hdc > ~/partition-tables.list
> ...
> etc for all your disks.
>
> Olle
>
>
\begin{pedantic_me}
fdisk -l /dev/hda > ~/partition-tables.list
fdisk -l /dev/hdb >> ~/partition-tables.list
fdisk -l /dev/hdc >> ~/partition-tables.list
\end{pedantic_me}
Very nice idea, promptly integrated....oh what a backup freak I am...
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