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Recover Partition-Table still present in running system

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Mar 15, 20263790 views
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Problem

Hy, I accidentially overwrote the first 1M of my harddisk on linux (using dd). So, the partition-table is gone. I can still access all partition (except the first one) using /dev/sda2 (and so on), so the data is still there. I only need the partition boundaries to restore the table. How can I do th…

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fdisk -l /dev/sda

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Fix for: Recover Partition-Table still present in running system

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The extents of the partitions can be read from , and so on. The values are in sectors. Write down these values before doing anything else, especially rebooting. Once you have the values, you can recreate the partitions with . Use the command to swit…

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