After using TestDisk - CGSecurity /**/ var skin = "monobook"; var stylepath = "/mw/skins"; var wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; var wgScriptPath = "/mw"; var wgServer = "http://www.cgsecurity.org"; var wgCanonicalNamespace = ""; var wgNamespaceNumber = 0; var wgPageName = "After_using_TestDisk"; var wgTitle = "After using TestDisk"; var wgArticleId = 1284; var wgIsArticle = true; var wgUserName = null; var wgUserLanguage = "en"; var wgContentLanguage = "en"; /**/ After using TestDisk From CGSecurity Jump to: navigation, search After writing a new partition structure, you have to reboot for the change to take effect. Check the filesystems and repair them if necessary. Contents 1 Writing the partition table 1.1 Mac OS X 2 How to check and repair a filesystem 2.1 ReiserFS 2.2 To repair a FAT/NTFS filesystem under Windows 3 How to make the system bootable again 3.1 Dos - Win9x 3.2 Windows 2000/XP/2003 3.3 Linux/FreeBSD 3.4 Multiboot 4 How to undelete files 4.1 Ext2fs 4.2 ReiserFS 4.3 PhotoRec if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Writing the partition table Mac OS X Use pdisk to recreate the Mac partition map using the values given by TestDisk How to check and repair a filesystem ReiserFS If the superblock of a reiserfs partition is missing, it can be rebuild with reiserfsck --rebuild-sb device. To repair a FAT/NTFS filesystem under Windows To check a NTFS partition from Windows, run chkdsk /f c: How to make the system bootable again Dos - Win9x If your OS doesn't boot, you can reinstall the system files with sys c:. Windows 2000/XP/2003 If your Windows doesn't boot, try fixmbr from the Windows Recovery Console and fixboot to repair NTFS boot sector. Linux/FreeBSD You may have to update your /etc/fstab to reflect the new partition order. Multiboot You may have to update your multiboot configuration and reinstall the multiboot in the Master Boot Record. Lilo: /etc/lilo.conf, lilo to re-install Grub: /boot/grub/grub.conf, grub-install device Windows (NT/2000/XP/2003/...): c:\boot.ini, run fixmbr from the Recovery Console (ie. fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0) How to undelete files Ext2fs To undelete files on linux, you can try e2undel ReiserFS Read the ReiserFS file undelete HOWTO PhotoRec Try PhotoRec if you want to recover files and the system is too badly damaged to be repaired. Return to TestDisk main page Category: Data Recovery if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); Data Recovery TestDisk PhotoRec download This page was last modified 13:46, 3 August 2006. Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();