Re: Recovering Partition using linux

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Rishi Bhushan Agrawal
<postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yes all the data has been recovered back and even the directory structure is
> intact.
>
> But I want to find a proper solution to these kind of problems.
>
> So I have not deleted the partition and still want to recover it.
>
> The point behind it is that when every thing is correct and in place then
> only MBR and the Partition table needs to be modified.
>
> So what modification can result in correcting it ?
>

I would use gpart to fix the partition table first, then reinstall
grub (or lilo) to fix the rest of the MBR.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpart

FYI: Computer forensic tools also include this kind of capability.  We
use X-Ways typically for your scenario, but it is $1200 or so (iirc).

Greg
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