i errored and am confused how to fix it!. help!!!!

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Originally Posted by hogwash

i dony mind the work i just need a few pointers! .... i assume that if i rebuild the patition table on the max @ 20gb (original config) that would be a good place to start... then the mbr and see what is what from there?

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I'm not sure how one can get the partition back. My expectation is if you just recreate the partition it will look unformatted. If you format it you could wipe out the data. I'm hoping someone else may know how to repair the partition in a way that will leave the files in place.

yes that is what was causing me pain , even if i fdisk the partition back it will show up as unformatted space i guess.... but i know it is ntfs so presumably i can recover files using a third party ntfs recovery tool or at least try and mount it and browse it maybe ...

much work ahead ... good job for the holidays !
thanks for your tips/advice

Use gpart to rebuild the partition table. I too once nuked the MNR & the partition table using the dd command. I then freaked out that I had lost everything. I searched google and found gpart. I then noticed it was on the Knoppix CD and used it to rebuild the partition table. Check out http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/.
I hope this helps.
James

All files after the 20 meg mark on the drive are still intact, if you can fix the partition then you may be able to get your files back, only problem I see is the TOC of disks. That would need to be rewritten. Though I sure some tool can scan and write it.

Like said before, Helix might be the thing to try.