Re: humble request for help

[Andrew Clausen]

Sam wrote:
> 
> Hi, I hesitate to use this list to ask for help but I have already been 
> stupid enough that a little more won´t hurt.
> 
> I was using parted ignorantly and when I got a message that parted didn´t 
> recognize the label, I typed mklabel without realizing that the label was the 
> partition table.
> 
> So I´ve erased the partition table on my hard drive (I only wanted to split 
> it to install Linux) and I´m hoping to restore it without making all the 
> information on the drive inaccessible.
> 
> The partition table is now blank (all zeros).  Can I use (DOS) fdisk to 
> "create a primary DOS partition" or will that erase some other crucial 
> information?

There is a program called "gpart" which can reconstruct partition
tables.
Can't remember the URL, but it's in the Parted documentation.

Andrew Clausen