[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:50:39AM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Elizabeth Barham thought:
> Mary writes:
> 
> Provided fdisk does not alter the data on the physical partitions
> themselves but rather only alters the partition table on the drive,
> and provided that there is no timestamp or other type of state that
> cannot be re-created, then it sounds to me as though it would work but
> I have not tried it.

If she's dealing only with _primary_ partitions all should be well since
primary partition info is stored at the start of the drive.  Extended
partitions are a different matter since they store the partition info
within the partition itself.  If Stacci's disk had all primary partitions,
they should be recoverable.  If they're logical drives inside extended
partitions, the info may be lost.

Conor
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