[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure -- recovery method suggestions

Steve Boyer steveboyer85 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 19:40:36 UTC 2015


>> On another note, wouldn't I have to reconstruct the MBR to resurrect the failing drive?  I don't have a backup copy of my partition table.  I know that there are three partitions but I am ignorant as to their exact geometry, or even which one comes first.
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> I believe testdisk can be used to recover the MBR and partition tables, if you wanted to try. Wouldn't take a lot of time to try and would be interesting to know.

I can second testdisk. It can search for partitions in a fast way
(takes a few seconds) then have the option of doing a deep search,
which will go through the entire drive and search for partitions and
write the partition table.

Steve


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