[mythtv-users] OT: lost partition table

[Saul A. Peebsen]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:05:33 -0500
John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Paul Stillwell
> <bigboi at wackywombats.com> wrote:
> > Pardon the interruption for a quick question that isn't directly
> > about Mythtv. Last week I had a disk failure on my Mythtv system.
> > After some investigation, it seems that the partition table is
> > corrupted or missing for some reason (I can see the data on the
> > disk using a hex dump tool). I plan to use dd to copy the disk to
> > another brand new drive (of the exact same size) and then use
> > something like 'xfs_repair' (it's an XFS partition) to try to
> > repair the drive. Has anyone had any success at something like
> > this? If so, what did you do? Any tips/tricks?
> >
> 
> If you know the layout you could recreate the partition (assuming it
> is a single partition) in the same place. Use fdisk for MBR or gdisk
> for GPT partitions.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

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Cheers, Saul