by Background:
1) Recently, the partition table on my wife's hard drive disappeared.
Net result: Lost all of her data - but hard drive is physically OK.
Machine had 3 partitions: 1 primary with DOS 6.22, 1 primary with
Win 95, and 1 extended (shared, D: in both environments).
2) We assume we're SOL this time around, but think it would be a
good idea to prepare in future. Seems like Linux is well suited
to this, because it should some fairly simple dd command,
pointing at the /dev/hda raw device.
3) Even though this request has nothing to do with Linux per se, as
I said above, I think a Linux solution may well present itself.
I'm thinking something similar to the solution given to the
perennial "How do I remove LILO from my hard disk?", which is:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda ibs=512 count=1
Anyway, we tried just using FDISK to put back the first partition, but, as
you'd expect, it came back as an unformatted partition. Is there anyway to
make it back into a formatted one??? As I said, we expect we are SOL this
time, but would like to be able to make a backup of parition table in future
in case this happens again. Thanks in advance...
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