Re: How to restore overwritten partition table?

From: Alphonse Ogulla (aogulla_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/03/05

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    On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:47:51 +0300, Alphonse Ogulla <aogulla@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Hi good people,
    > A friend inadvertently made changes to his windoze disk (partition)
    > during initial install of woody but quit afterwards before permanently
    > writing changes to the partition table. However, the original OS can
    > now not boot at all. Error on start-up is "No operating system found".
    >
    > How can I restore the original partition table so as to boot windoze
    > 2000 and salvage whatever data he had on it?
    >
    > There was only one partition on disk which had been taken entirely by
    > windoze. The partition was _not_ formatted after creation.
    >
    > Shall appreciate whatever help you can provide,
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Alphonse,
    > Nairobi, Kenya.
    >

    Sorry, subject header should have read: How to restore overwritten
    partition table?

    Alphonse.

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