Apply your favorite partitioner, delete all partitions, save and exit. *WHACK* Thumb drives are nice quick practice implements. I <3 solid state storage. On 01/16/2011 10:13 PM, Ubu Sumner wrote: > Sounds like a good challenge for me Brian. Thank you, I will look into > this. Anyway to reliably "whack" a partition table to make a practice > drive before trying the real thing? > > If it helps, have a pretty good idea of the partition sizes, and only > care about the data partition (sys recovery about lowest 5GB; sys 30GB; > empty 2nd sys 30GB; remainder data). > > (It would have been so easy to dump the data partition.) > > > > > If all you've done is whack the partition table, but didn't reformat > or otherwise change the data in the filesystem, use 'testdisk' in > linux to hunt down the partition boundaries and write out the new > table. Once the new table is written, viola, the filesystems appear. > > I've been here before, and testdisk saved my butt :-) > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org </mc/compose?to=tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list