Am Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:51:59 -0800 schrieb H264BitPacker:

> The next thing I tried is to put the old disk inside a Linux box with
> NTFS kernel support. I was able to boot the Linux machine and mount
> the 'bad' disk. I am now in the process of recovering all my files.

I specially installed a SuSE linux kernel with NTFS support, had a
second hard disk of the same typ, made an dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
for only working on backup system hard disk.

I know the parameters for the lost partition in sectors (start/end).
But I think that fdisk will also clear the partition, when removing
the now wrong partition entries and adding a new partition with correct
parameters.

When doing this test and starting with XP Windows told me: unformatted
hdd, should I make a format on this disk.

What can I do else ?