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gpart may also be useful.<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpart<br><br><div id="editor_signature"></div>On Sunday 16/01/2011 at 5:13 pm, Brian Wall wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ubu Sumner <ubusum@ymail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br> 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.<br></blockquote><br>If all you've done is whack the partition table, but didn't reformat<br>or otherwise change the data in the filesystem, use 'testdisk' in<br>linux to hunt down the partition boundaries and write out the new<br>table. Once the new table is written, viola, the filesystems appear.<br><br>I've been here before, and testdisk saved my butt :-)<br><br>Brian<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br><br></blockquote><br>
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