Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
April 22nd, 2009, 6:59
Hi all
I have a mirrored raid here that is showing up as having no partiitons on it. Using OnTrack ER Pro 6 I can find all the info about the partitions, their start, end, cluster size etc
I'm wondering if there is some small tool I can run that will recreate the partition table as it was? The only thing I cannot remember is whether the partitions were all created as primary or whether it's extended stuff
April 23rd, 2009, 1:42
Consider making an image of the disk and manually creating the partitions on the copy, since you know most of the information.
You should do this with an operating system like linux, because you can easily edit the partition table without touching anything else on the disk, and then try to mount the filesystems readonly.
April 23rd, 2009, 11:38
Sometimes with mirrored drives, the only thing you have to do is use a hex editor to change the partition ID byte in the partition table. Not always though.
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