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Thank you again.

The partitions deleted were DOS FAT16. Can I use a linux emergency disk to try 
to recover ? There were 4 partitions, all exactly 2008MB.

Appreciatively,
Courtney


On Friday 16 April 2004 20:01, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 1. Really current backups.
> 2. The exact partition configuration before the Oops.
> 3. Luck that nothing was done other than take a 2 (or higher) partition
> drive and change it to a 1 partition drive.
>
> Using the data from #2, fdisk the drive and remake the partitions back
> the way they were. DO NOT USE THE DOS FDISK!! The Linux fdisk is rather
> gentle and will only write the partition markers.
>
> It might work to dd the drive to a file and try mounting the file using
> -o loop.
>
> If it was a 1 partition drive that was borked into a multi-partition
> drive, the data that was at what is now partition boundaries is lost.
>
> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 20:13, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > Thank you.


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