[ubuntu-uk] Please help.I've lost my partitions

[javadayaz]

The original hard drive was 400gb and the new one im installing is the
300gb...i could try and use that!

2010/1/25 Paul Roach <roachy at roachy.net>

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:06 AM, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can you please point towards an article regarding re creating the
> partition
> > table?
>
> I'd strongly recommend getting another drive of the same size or
> larger and dd'ing the broken drive.  Then you can work on a copy if
> the drive without touching the original data.
>
> Working with a borked drive is dangerous in that in trying to recover
> the data, it's very easy to make matters worse....
>
> Get another drive before proceeding and install in the machine.....then
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=4k conv=noerror,sync
>
> (where hda in the example is the original broken disk and hdb is the
> new blank disk).  You can then work with a copy of the disk without
> worries...
>
> Good luck
>
> Paul
>
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Regards

Javad
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