Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > Helping a friend here and she just wacked her active hard drive while > attempting to partition a second hard drive. > > I need a WINDOWS utility to undo what Fdisk.exe just did and restore that > drive to what it was. drive was not formated afaict, so if a program > exists to restore that partition data, she will be safe, then we can > 'safely' partition the 'correct' hard drive for linux ..
Well, chances are that you only erased the partition table. If so, writing the very same partition table back, will make all the drives with the filesystems reappear. So, if for example you only had one big partition, than recreating that partition will put everything back in place. I suggest that you use a Linux fdisk for that purpose, because then you're sure that it won't touch anything else except the partition table. Read the docs for fdisk though! If you had more than one partition on that disk, than you will need to know the exact start and end blocks of the partition. `fdisk -l` will print them, so you can save them to a file, but now that you already lost that information ... In the Filesystems-HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.html) there are some utilities mentioned that will look for filesystem information on the hard drive and then suggest a partitition table based on these data. In particular these are - Fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html) - gpart (http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/) - rescuept (part of util-linux?) They all run under Linux though. I've tried gpart and it guessed all my partitions correctly. Good luck, Viktor PS: Once you have your partition table repaired, `fdisk -l` will print it out, so you can save it on paper. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
