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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recover from FDISK? (HELP!)
Message-ID: <1006@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 04:28:53 GMT
References: <36300057@iuvax>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <36300057@iuvax>, boyer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
> Help!  I accidentally did an FDISK (re-partitioned) my disk drive.
> I was attempting to partition another drive, but the computer did 
> not recognize the other drive and re-partitioned a drive with data.
> 
> Is there any way to recover the data from this drive?

Yes, all you have to do is re-fdisk the disk back to what it was originally.
Fdisk does not modify anything but the partition table, so as long as you
didn't format the drive, just re-fdisk the drive and set up the partitions
exactly as you had them before they were trashed.

If you have formatted the drive, I would tell you to get out your latest
set of backups (what, you haven't backed up the system since jan?).  The 
latest version of Norton Utilities is supposed to have a program that will
assist in the restoration of data on a formatted hard drive, but I have no
idea as to it's usefullness.

Good Luck