[plug] gpart is King! [was: OT: HD Data recovery]

[Greg Raftery]

Bloody great advice Nick! gpart worked very nicely for me too...picked all
the partitions...and gave me all the info to recreate them with fdisk.

I managed to get the first of the 3 partitions back, luckily for me it was
the one with all the vital data. Maybe I will try again to get the other two
after I burn what I have on the first to CD.

Tip for impressing females : recover their previously unrecoverable data!

Thanks to everyone for all the advice.
Greg Raftery

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Bannon" <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>

> Otherwise, try running gpart - you can download it from sunsite
> (/pub/Linux/system/filesystems), a local Debian mirror or ;
> http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
>
> That will try to guess the partition table from the contents of the disc
> (looks for filing systems that it recognises). It worked for me!