Re: data rescue

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

onsdagen den 5 januari 2005 14.59 skrev Sujeet Kumar:
> I ran
> blockdev -v --rereadpt ....
> on my harddisk .
> It gave re-read partition succeded. Then after rebooting the machine it
> shows no partitions.
>
> I tried running linux-rescue from bootable disk and it shows no valid
> partition table.
> How do i rescue my data . 
gpart can recover partition tables. I used it to recover a failed disk where 
the extended partitions were screwed due to a disk  failure. Every attempt to 
restore the tables on disk failed. The partion table grew stranger each time, 
but I could recover data from a disk image. 

> Tell me what rereadpt basically does 
no idea other than the man page....,sorry.

-- robin
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