On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 07:23, Titan OS wrote: > I've Managed to over write my MBR and offcourse all my partions are gone (stupid me). i kept a backup of my MBR but silly me it's on the same disk that died. > > i have a rescue disk is there any way i can read from /dev/hda and go through the whole disk (RAW DATA) searching for "mbr backup file" and then read it. > > I am using EXT3 with slackware 8.1/RH 7.2 Look for the partition-rescue mini-howto. There you can find some things you can do to recover your partitions. Diego > > I am sorry my spelling is real bad > > Thank you > > -- > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org > > > Powered by Outblaze > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users -- ------------------------------------------------------- Diego Santa Cruz PhD. student Publications available at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta Signal Processing Institute (LTS1 / ITS / STI) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) EPFL - STI - ITS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: Diego.SantaCruz@epfl.ch Phone: +41 - 21 - 693 26 57 Fax: +41 - 21 - 693 76 00 -------------------------------------------------------