[H-GEN] Partition table recovery

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Mon Oct 25 18:48:30 EDT 2010


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, gavin duley
<gavin at microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> a friend recently managed to apparently kill their hard disc using gparted. It failed to finish writing the new partition table, and now gives the error "invalid partition table". Not sure of what distribution they're using yet, or what other OSes they have on the disc, but will find out soon hopefully.

Sorry to hear this :/

> Is there any way to recover or recreate the partition table without losing all the data on the drive?

You might want to give testdisk (1) a go...

cheers
James

1. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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