[H-GEN] Help! A power surge ate my partition

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Sarah Walters wrote on 15/12/2004 08:57:31 AM:
>
> I assume this means that my partition table is very sick. Can anyone
> recommend any tools (Linux/DOS boot disk/FreeBSD all fine) that might
> allow me to pull off the data?

Hi Sarah,

Svend Olaf Mikkelsen was a friend indeed when I had a similar problem, he
"lives" in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage newsgroup and has a web
site http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm

With that tools I was able to find the lost partition clusters after the
MBR and tables were totally destoryed and I extracted the complete contents
of the partitions. His tools work for FAT, NTFS, HPFS, BeOS and Linux ext2,
ext3, reiserfs and swap partitions,

Ciao,

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect (Certified)
Systems Engineering and Architecture (SEA)
Application Management Services
IBM Global Services, Brisbane, Australia
phone:  07 3213 2149,  mobile:  0412 121 276,  email:  nickolas at au1.ibm.com
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