[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

[Staci]

sl


On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Travis Casey wrote:
> was on a Trustix Linux system, using fdisk.  Once I re-entered the
> partition table information, all was well.

And how exactly did you dO that?  Not by just remaking the partition using fdisk.....

> I know that in the Windows world, there are utilities specifically for
> backing up and restoring partition tables, since some viruses destroy
> the partition table, but not the data on the disk.
>
> A web search turned up gpart:
>
>   http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

I have gpart, but it gives me this:

Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r

Primary partition(2)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r

Primary partition(3)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r

Primary partition(4)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r


And I really think that would be a bad idea to write to the partition table. :P


> According to the page, this is a program which will examine a hard
> drive and see if it can "guess" what the partition table should have
> looked like.  It can then write the guessed table to the drive.
>
> Another utility which tries to do the same thing, and can be put on a
> bootable DOS floppy and run:
>
>   http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/testdisk.html


I'll check that out.
Good thing i've got some time today, now I've got a couple things to try. :)

sl