On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:55:12PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition > table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into > it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions. > I need this so that I can restore each ext? partition to a separate HD. > So far I have found a windows based tool from EaseUS.com , but is > not open source and > is not free. a few years ago I wrote a DOS partition table over the top of a USB drive containing an ext3 or ext4 partition, holding a couple hundred gigs of my son's anime collection. one could deduce that he wasn't happy. I found a program named something like "recover disk" or something like that for sale for a reasonable price (39.95??? comes to mind), from some outfit in India. they offered versions for windoze and for linux, and both could allegedly recover stuff from ext partitions. so I bought it, and with some head-banging managed to recover all the important files. I can dig around to see if I can find the actual name and/or a URL, let me know if you want. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org