[wellylug] Fsck'd Partitions... help?

[Jo Booth]

On 20/04/2006, at 22:14 , David Antliff wrote:

> Jo Booth wrote:
>> Anyone have any bright ideas about how to recover partition tables?
>
> It's actually not too hard to do manually if you know where the  
> start sectors are meant to be (Linux is easy, DOS is harder). Even  
> rebuilding extended partitions is possible if you know roughly  
> where they start (you can search for the signature if you know  
> where to look).
>
> Are you sure you didn't lose anything other than the partition  
> table? Or are you asking how to recover after a mke2fs (which is  
> something different entirely...)?


Not too sure what's lost... i just can't find two of my partitions  
that used to be there.

hdb1 is a small "boot" partition of 518 mb
hdb2 is an extended partition with (28,106 Mb)
   	hdb5 (the old linux partition) unknown type (9,193 MB)
	hdb6 is an 86 Mb swap partition
Then we have 18,826 mb of "unallocated space"  where I used to have  
two drives, both with "important" stuff on them

I haven't "formatted" any of the partitions, and I don't think i've  
resized anything (windows diskpart doesn't do much)

I'd be keen on fixing it - even if I have to scroll through MBs of  
data to find the ends of the disks ;)  I know all three partitions  
are about 10 gig anyways.
So -- how does one rewrite partition tables by hand using an Ubunutu  
5.1 live cd.. :)

Thanks,

Jo.


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