[Cialug] Recover fat32 logical partition(s)

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Fri Jan 31 20:56:12 UTC 2020


Just lost an old system, .. looking at the HD, I see:

	/dev/sdb1	*	FAT32
	/dev/sdb2		EXT'd (LBA)
	/dev/sdb5		FAT32

The weird part is that sdb1 shows bootable, yet there are no system files
there and sdb5 is a backup partition.

So, .. there are two partitions missing - the system partition and the
main data partition. None of those files show up in 1 or 5. In addition, 2
and 5 are exactly the same sectors.

Seems like the extendition partition(s) entry is corrupt?

Starting a sector by sector now, any recommendations on how to rebuild the
partition table?

	TIA!


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