Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:54:48 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Off topic] Trashed NT disk Message-ID: <20030723175448.GA33453@genius.tao.org.uk>
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--2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A slightly off topic question, but hopefully someone here can shed a little light for me. A friend of mine had the misfortune of accidently deleting the partition table off a 60 gb ntfs drive during an NT install. The disk appears to be intact with the exception of of the partition table, and I'm trying to work out how to reconstruct it so that we can gain access to the ntfs partition again. Is this something that anyone here has had to fight with? I've tried contructing a new partition (on a different drive) within win2000 and repeating the process so that I've got a disk with non-critical data to play with, but so far all my "intelligent" guesses about what should be in the partition table have resulted in failure. One of the things that is confusing me is how the geometry reported by the drive in a freebsd dmesg relates to the "bios" picture of the geometry that I appear to be able to tweak with in fdisk. Can anyone here help me? The rest of you are hereby granted permission to laugh and laugh! ;o}. Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj8ey+YACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZTxQCeNl6gQIg1CZbld6nVNW5w/1os yk8AoNbW6q3eW45ajSDx/RAwtQ6tu2Op =r4qV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fHTh5uZTiUOsy+g--
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