gpart may also be useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpart On Sunday 16/01/2011 at 5:13 pm, Brian Wall wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ubu Sumner <ubusum at ymail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I ran Partition Magic on a family member's single boot XP machine, >> changing an empty logical partition to an active-primary partition, >> and it didn't take. Lost the partition table. > > If all you've done is whack the partition table, but didn't reformat > or otherwise change the data in the filesystem, use 'testdisk' in > linux to hunt down the partition boundaries and write out the new > table. Once the new table is written, viola, the filesystems appear. > > I've been here before, and testdisk saved my butt :-) > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110116/acb0a876/attachment.htm