On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 09:55, Jim Tarvid wrote: > My guess is that the partition table got sprayed with bad data on power down. > > if one had a listing of partitions such as that provided by fdisk /dev/hda -l > you should be able to rebuild the partition table. > > Of course having a copy of the MBR would make life easier > > dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-hda.mbr count=1 bs=512 > Good idea. I'll do that for all my machines and spread copies around my LAN. I presume that to restore the MBR from one of these backups, it's just a matter of reversing the "if" and "of", or is there something else required?
thanks Brian
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