Re: [TCLUG:18079] clobbered partition table

[Brian Dolan-Goecke <Brian@Goecke-Dolan.com>]

Before we jump off and make suggestions, what exactly happened ?
    What does the partition table look like now ?
    What do you want it to look like ?
    What did it look like before ?
    Are you sure the partition are totally gone ?

If the partitions were over written with Linux you have no chance beyond one
of the possible expensive solutions.  Other than that I need more info to
help.

==>brian.

"David S. Cargo" wrote:

> During the installfest, I managed to use Partition Magic 2.02 to clobber
> my partition table on my combined Windows 95 / Linux disk.
>
> Looking at possible solutions, I checked with Ontrack; they are sure
> they could fix the problem, but it would cost.  (It might be worth it,
> but I'm looking at alternatives.)  I also called the Geek Squad, and they
> said they could recover data, but not necessarily Windows itself.
>
> Linux has two programs that might allow a person to try to do this
> himself:  gpart and fixdisktable.
>
> My question is, have you ever had this problem?  Did you try to cover
> it yourself?  What were the results?
>
> dsc
>
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