[sclug] Recovering partition tables

Alex Butcher lug at assursys.co.uk
Tue Aug 16 15:32:34 UTC 2005


On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Peter Brewer wrote:

> Dear Sclugers
>
> I've been setting up a WinXP and Kubuntu dual boot.  During the Windoze setup 
> I managed to delete the partitions off my external backup hard disk (yeah I 
> know - really really stupid!).  Although I  didn't follow through with the 
> repartitioning it appears that Windows setup has deleted the partition tables 
> from the disk.  Anyone know if I can recover any of the data?  The original 
> partitions were Fat32 and Ext3.

<http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/> might be worth a whirl.

> Many thanks
> Peter

HTH,
Alex.
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