Of course, this won't help you now, but it serves as a clever warning.
Regardless of your backup procedure, it is always wise to make a backup
copy of your boot sector. In fact, as well as on another disk, I believe
you can store a copy on the disk in question itself.
Between the MBR and the first partition, there is a section of null
space. If it is big enough, one can use careful math to place a copy of
the bootsector in the gap.
A few seconds with dd and you would have a working system right now. :)
Sorry, and good luck.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:01:36PM +1100, Kal Torak wrote:
> Hiyas...
>
> I kinda did a fdisk -BI on my main HDD by accident... It killed
> all my partitions... I tried to get them back with sysinstall and
> the live file system, but I cant mount them and stuff...
>
> Is there some way I can get my data back? I dont care so much about
> the file systems.. But there are some files I would *LOVE* to get
> back...
>
> Any pointers would be great...
>
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