On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:02 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
<tchollingsworth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM, linux guy
<linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ? What would
> I need other than the partition table sizes ? I know I had boot,
> swap and / partitions...
Try testdisk. It will attempt to identify and restore partitions on a disk.
TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier(a)cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdd - 160 GB / 149 GiB - INTEL SS DSA2M160G2GC
Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done.
[Intel ] Intel/PC partition
[EFI GPT] EFI GPT partition map
(Mac i386, some x86_64...)
[Humax ] Humax partition table
[Mac ] Apple partition map
[None ] Non partitioned media
[Sun ] Sun Solaris partition
[XBox ] XBox partition
[Return ] Return to disk selection
After selecting an Intel/PC partition type, testdisk finds no
partitions on the initial and the deeper scans. Not a thing.