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Re: MBR apparently overwritten!


To: Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: David Cuthbert <dacut@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:44:16 -0700

Petr Janda wrote:
Something freaky has happened. My 3rd disk's partitions are gone. I had a 1) HURD 2) Windows 3) DragonFly. Now wanting to play some games i went to boot WIndows and i found out the DragonFly partition is now covering the whole disk. Does MBR have a modification timestamp? If yes, how to retrieve it? If no, what can i do?

I'm not aware of a way to recover the MBR -- it's not copied to any backup space when overwritten (intentionally, accidentally, or via software bug).


You may be interested in gpart, which will attempt to guess the partition boundaries:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/


You probably know this already, but don't write to that disk! The more you write to it now, the less likely that partition recovery will succeed.



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