[Gllug] Accessing hd with corrupt partition table

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 17:55, Ian Norton wrote:
> by patient, i mean, dont be tempted to give up if gpart is busy for 4 hrs,

That's no problem - I've been battling with this for 6 weeks already. It's a 
techno-UNsavvy mate's drive which Windoze has hozed thru applying scandisk 
after re-pariotioning.

Anyway - is gpart runnablw from tomsrtbt? The drive seems so far gone it 
prevents a box booting from hard drive...

Dylan

>
> Ian
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:48:04PM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> > gpart is very good,
> >
> > unless your disk is physically damaged, if you are patient and read the
> > docs it seems to be good at its job,
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:09:16PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:49:51PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I've got a 1Gig IDE drive which has a FAT32 partition, a linux swap
> > > > partition and an ext2 partition on it. Unfortunately, so far as the
> > > > partition table is concerned the total size is over 90Gig!!
> > > >
> > > > Is there a program which would allow me to discover (or at least make
> > > > a best guess at) the real partition geometry and use that info to
> > > > read the FAT and ext2 partitions?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > Dylan
> > >
> > > I've used a package in Debian called gpart that may be useful to you.
> > > The home page seems to be unavailable at the moment, but the Debian
> > > package and mirror sites are below:
> > >     http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/gpart.html
> > >     http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/gpart/
> > >
> > > It's in beta development, but still usable.
> > >
> > > An alternative could be GNU Parted:
> > >     http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > #--------------------------------------------------------#
> > >
> > > |       John Edwards    Email: John.Edwards at uk.com       |
> > > |
> > > |  "SEP is intended as a management routing protocol,    |
> > > |   and should not be used in a production enviroment."  |
> > >
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