Re: how to restore a hidden partition

[Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa@bluebottle.com>]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 03:27 -0700, formless void wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe that my PC has a hidden partition which is
> unvisible under Windows and other OS.  I was going to
> install Debian-based OS on my machine.  Since this
> problem bothers me, I'm reluctant to do it untill it
> is solved.  Is there any linux package which can
> restore or view the hidden partition?
> 

Yes, try parted. It's a command line (ncurses?) based partition editing
tool. If you don't have Debian installed yet, and have a fast internet
connection, you may want to download Knoppix. It has the qtparted tool,
which does the same with GUI.
Good luck!

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