Finding lost partition [SOLVED]

jel · Last edited by jel on Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:36 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I just messed up a 300 GB filesystem when my computer froze while running gparted from an ubuntu livecd ( :evil:

). However, most of the data is also on another hard disk. The problem is that the other hd has been
repartitioned. I have not overwritten the old partition so I think I ought to be able to rescue it if I could only find the starting and ending cylinders somehow.

Is it possible to scan a hd for partition cylinders? Or is the partition table backed up somewhere?

Pls. advice!
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# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=512

drescherjm · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:09 am Post subject:

http://gentoo-portage.com/app-admin/testdisk

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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jel · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks, testdisk found my old partition but alas it seems to have been overwritten. Marking SOLVED.
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# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=512