Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!virtech!cpcahil 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 Lines: 19 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