Message-ID: <004e01be6e8e$2351fe20$01311fcb@training-backup>
From: "Wayne Jackson" <wmjackson AT ozemail DOT com DOT au>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: is my partition table hopelessly ruined?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:47:15 +1000
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

> I cannot stress strongly enough that this method should be used
>only as a very, very, last-resort.
>The slightest mistake will destroy all data on the entire drive.
>After this destruction, it's gone-for-good. No way to get it back, ever.


That is not entirly true.  Even after "corrupting" a partition table, you
can use Linux to read the disk still.

If the poster of the original message can, backup/copy everything to
tape/disk or whatever is available, and "re-do" the paritions. (How else did
they get Clinton's Email and stuff)

I would suggest a package like Image Magic by PowerQuest as it can create
images of the drives and put them back the way you want/need them to be.