recovering linux partitions on mbr

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b.amine23
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recovering linux partitions on mbr

#1 Post by b.amine23 » Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:25 am

hello
first i want to thank you for this great cd :)

i used mbrwork to repair mbr on my hard drive

i've reset mbr to zero then i used the option to restore MS partitions which works fine

however now i want to restore linux (ext3 and swap) partitions to the mbr,

i got 2 windows partitions which was restored by mbrwork
and 2 linux partitions SWAP and ext3 which are missing on the mbr

help please

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Re: recovering linux partitions on mbr

#2 Post by Icecube » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:25 am

Try testdisk (Parted Magic) to recover lost partitions.
Download Ultimate Boot CD v5.0: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
Use Parted Magic for handling all partitioning task: http://partedmagic.com/

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Re: recovering linux partitions on mbr

#3 Post by b.amine23 » Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:49 am

the partitions exists i just lost them by erasing mbr

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Re: recovering linux partitions on mbr

#4 Post by Icecube » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:20 am

Did you try testdisk? It is able to search for deleted partitions and fix the partition table.
Download Ultimate Boot CD v5.0: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
Use Parted Magic for handling all partitioning task: http://partedmagic.com/

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Re: recovering linux partitions on mbr

#5 Post by b.amine23 » Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:42 pm

not yet i just wanted to make sur it is the right utility for my issue

thanks :)

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