<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks all! I found testdisk in the PartedMagic bootable image included on UBCD 5.1.1 and it easily restored the partition for me, and it even kept the original UUID. Whew!<br><br></div>Now I just need to figure out how to partition the new (2TB) disk that I was trying to work on in the first place. If I use gparted 0.9.0, I came up with two ways to partition it, but neither starts at sector 64, which I believe is where I need to start an optimized partition (yes/no?). If I tell it to align to MiB, it requires a minimum of 1 MiB free space before the partition and the resulting partition starts at sector 2048. If I tell it to align to cylinder boundaries, it will let me specifiy zero (0) free space and start with sector 0.<br>
<br></div>Since this disk is intended just to store video recordings on (this _is_ a MythTV system after all ;-) and I keep my O/S on a separate drive, it there any reason not to go with this latter option and start at sector 0?<br>
<br></div>Craig.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk" target="_blank">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 30/01/13 14:22, Craig Huff wrote:<br>
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Thanks for the feedback, but I need a little more info.<br>
<br>
I know it started at sector 63 and used the whole disk -- originally<br>
partitioned with gparted 0.5.1. Do I just use gparted again and format it<br>
as JFS using the whole disk as I did originally, or do I need to do<br>
something different to avoid wiping out the file definitions?<br>
<br>
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Whatever method you do, you do *not* want to reformat your volume, ever. That is a sure way to lose your data!<br>
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What you need to do is to recreate the information in the partition table so that it replicates what was there before. Others have given suggestions how that can be done.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Mike Perkins</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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