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FaN_OnLy1

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From: Montpellier, France

Registered: 2008-09-22

Posts: 126

[Solved (kind of)] Rewriting a partion table on a ntfs drive

So, i searched a bit on the board and did'nt find any valuable answer to my problem.

I have this 320gb external drive. I was resizing a partition in gparted when i accidentaly told it to create a new partition table. The disk now has none. i know my data is still on the disk, so how would i go about recreating a new partition table to acess my data ? (It was a GPT partition table)

Regards.

Edit: I may add that i checked using grep that my files were still there. there's just something fucked up about the partition table i guess. data ain't erased. x(

Last edited by FaN_OnLy1 (2010-09-28 05:39:25)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Rewriting a partion table on a ntfs drive

Maybe testdisk can help you.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk … partitions

i accidentaly told it to create a new partition table. The disk now has none.

I may add that i checked using grep that my files were still there.

I think we have a case of false advertising ;-) http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/ … _8_big.png

Last edited by karol (2010-09-27 20:46:53)

FaN_OnLy1

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From: Montpellier, France

Registered: 2008-09-22

Posts: 126

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Rewriting a partion table on a ntfs drive

Haha well, i didn't know about testdrive. it's a magic piece of software. thank you for your help. Testdrive is able to see every single file of mine. Solved.