Interesting point and tip. No chance that works on RAID screw-ups, right? Not that I have those drives intact anymore... That was my second mistake. On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Brian Wall wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ubu Sumner <ubusum at ymail.com> wrote: >> >> I ran Partition Magic on a family member's single boot XP machine, changing an empty logical partition to an active-primary partition, and it didn't take. Lost the partition table. > > If all you've done is whack the partition table, but didn't reformat > or otherwise change the data in the filesystem, use 'testdisk' in > linux to hunt down the partition boundaries and write out the new > table. Once the new table is written, viola, the filesystems appear. > > I've been here before, and testdisk saved my butt :-) > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list