On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Ian Young <ian.greenleaf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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> > Fixing partition tables is what this tool was made for.
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> Seconding this recommendation, but going a step further; if you only
> need to recover data i would use
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec. i


TestDisk did the trick - what a great tool!  It rebuilt the GPT partition
and I was able to access the 240Gb data that was on the drive.

Thanks everyone for your replies.

john
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