Hi there, Hmm, not sure about this one, kind of in doubt here, but I know that 'fdisk /mbr' writes a new master boot record to the HD and I think it also checks the disk for the partitions and writes a new partition table with what it finds. Guess it would really hurt to try though, but remember that if you installed LILO in the MBR, it'll be gone after this. If I'm wrong about the partition table, please tell me... See ya, Emerald P.S.: If you have partition magic, you can run a check on your HD and it'll tell you if there's something wrong with your partition table or anything else, but you can also use the SuSE cd's for this (just go through the installation untill it asks where you want to install, there'll be an output of fdisk) Jason wrote:
Hi people.
I believe a Win virus did some serious damage to my drive. I used to have around 10 logical linux partitions, now they're all gone (after using Win98).
The primary partition (/dev/hda1) is still there. The extended partition is still there (no logicals now).
What I don't have is a rescue disk.
What I do have are the start and end cylinder values for each partition, the size of them, the device they're associated with, their mount points, and inode densities.
The data is still there (I feel) - but the partition table is corrupt.
Any way of fixing it?? (I remeber on a previous occasion, I tried using fdisk to recreate the partitions, using the start and end cylinder values I had - and it partially worked.. should I try this again??)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Jason.
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