Re: Photoscore

[Chris Yate]

On 28 Nov 2016 20:12, "David Wright" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
> The most important thing in this situation is not to panic.
> It's quite possible that only two things have been altered:
> the Master Boot Record may have been overwritten, and the
> partition types may have been altered in the absence of any
> other changes, in particular to their contents.
>
> So it should be worth booting from a live linux CD to mount the
> partitions to check their contents, and to reinstall Grub
> (or whatever you use to boot) into the MBR. (Modify the latter
> if you have a EFI disk rather than MBR.)
>
> Note that Linux used to use the same GUID as a Microsoft Basic Data
> Partition so these could be relict, or set by MS as a convenient
> "bucket" value.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_basic_data_partition
>
> Cheers,
> David.

I'd suggest Supergrub. Great tool, and I've used it a number of times to recover partition tables that I messed up. There's other options though...

Chris