[Gllug] Accessing hd with corrupt partition table

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:51:24PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> 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
> 

gpart can be run from anything (afair) if you can get it onto the boot media,
but you cant edit a mounted / ,

you might want to try gnu parted aswell,

Ian
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