Re: [dunlug] Lost my partition, and really want it back

["Maxwell C. Dancer" <Max@HIDDEN>]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:57, Maxwell C. Dancer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Not to long ago I got myself a new HD, and not really knowing what I was
> doing, but figuing it was empty so I couldn';t lose any data, I played
> around trying to get it to be used.


Hi everybody, 

firstly thanks for those who were helping, I know late saturday, and
early Sunday isn't the best time for responses.

I have now managed to fix it (3 steps).

first I guest guess partition to see what it thought was really there

equinox:/home/maxwelld# gpart /dev/hdc

secondly I saved the MBR and the partition table (haha, there wasn't
really one)

dd if=/dev/hdc of=mbr bs=512 count=1

And thirdly, I used gpart, and told it that I had faith in what it
believed was in the first partition, and for it to re-create the
partition table

gpart -W /dev/hdc /dev/hdc

Oh yes, and I suppose forth, I rebooted as advised after running gpart.

And it worked :)

Cheers


Max.


-- 
DunLUG Mailing list. Browsable archives at:  http://lists.ethernal.org/
To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to dunlug-request@HIDDEN