Re: [RFH] Partition table recovery

[Anton Altaparmakov]

On 20 Jul 2007, at 12:29, Al Boldi wrote:
> Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > parted and its derivatives are pile of crap...  They cause corruption
> > to totally healthy systems at the best of times.  Don't go near them.
> >
> > Use TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) and be happy.
> > (-:
>
> This one really worked best, without getting confused about older  
> partitions.

Yes, TestDisk is very good.

> Thanks everybody!

You are welcome.

> BTW, what's a partion table?

Are you kidding?  If not read those two and you shall be enlightened  
(or utterly confused (-;)...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(computing)
http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwtab.htm

Best regards,

	Anton
--
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/


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