:Linux Journal: How a Linux Distro Saved Hard Disk Data
Linux Journal: How a Linux Distro Saved Hard Disk Data Nov 9, 2005, 11 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (9341 reads) (Other stories by Collin Park)
"Not too long ago, a friend sent me an e-mail that said, 'I want to ask for a favor and see if you can help me to recover the data in the hard disk of my daughter's PC.' I came to learn that some combination of utilities had wiped out the partition table in the master boot record (MBR). Maybe a tool such as fdisk could fix this problem, but the cylinder numbers weren't available. This article describes how, using a typical Linux distro (SuSE 8.0, in this case) it was possible to recover the master boot record and, with it, my friend's daughter's data..."
