just wanted to thank gpart, and the person here that mentioned it, for their existance. my sister's PC was hit by the 'chernobil' virus, leaving the partition table empty, but not affecting the bios. I prepared a linux rescue disk (tom's boot-root kit, http://www.toms.net/rb/), and replaced the (undeed for my case) SCSI drivers, replacing them with gpart and fixdiskimg (needed to also copy libdb to the floppy, since gpart requires it). went to sister's home and booted it via this floppy. gpart guessed two out of 3 partitions (one of which contained all her work) while fixdiskimg seg faulted after a short run. (btw, the machine is a win95 system, no linux on it). one note: gpart by default runs in a read-only mode, and only if told so - would actually change the partition table. but check this out first... guy
