Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-26 Thread R. Bradley Tilley
> Well all the rescue disks didn't help any. Gpart scanned for 4 hours > and spit out a bunch of read errors along the way then came up with no > partitions at all. Partition Magic was confused, same with Spin Rite. > And so I checked it with the ibm drive fitness test and guess what? Its > co

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:11:20AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Leo Spalteholz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Leo, > > > > > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > > > > system up

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Leo Spalteholz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Leo, > > > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > > > system up right now.. > > > > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ >

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Leo, > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > > system up right now.. > > http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ > > You can boot from boot-floppy, your debian-CD, ... Or the Knoppix cd!! T

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread Christoph Claus
Hi Leo, > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > system up right now.. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ You can boot from boot-floppy, your debian-CD, ... If you have neither a boot-floopy nor a Debian-CD, here is what you can do: http://www.deb

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread leo
Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi there! > > I once used gpart -- IMHO it does a very good job IF the data on the > drive was not altered. Personally, I doubt that your data will be > untouched if your partition table was altered. Give it a try... I'm pretty sure the data is sti

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread Christoph Claus
Hi there! I once used gpart -- IMHO it does a very good job IF the data on the drive was not altered. Personally, I doubt that your data will be untouched if your partition table was altered. Give it a try... Package: gpart Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 67 Maintainer: David C

Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-24 Thread leo
Ok I totally screwed over my hard drive yesterday and need help. My partition table was overwritten with a wrong one. Heres how it happened: I wanted to put debian on another computer of mine for a server. This computer has neither a cdrom or a floppy so I decided the easiest way to install d