Hard drive issues

**Dj TweeX** · August 6th, 2010

ok so i accidentally screwed up the partition table on my hard drive like twice in a row. so i couldn't recover it. i used ddrescue to make an image of the drive. the only problem is i cant mount the image cause it doesn't have a partition table. but the data is still there!!!
Can anyone please help me?!?!
any info you need just ask!
Gabe R.

**gallifrey** · August 6th, 2010

Have you tried Gparted? It can delete whatever is on there, and create a new partition table. If you can't boot, there is a bootable version.

**Dj TweeX** · August 10th, 2010

i should be more specific. i need to rebuild the partition table. so the data could be accessed...

**Dj TweeX** · August 11th, 2010

bump please.

**linux18** · August 11th, 2010

so you have an iso or img of the data?

**Fludizz** · August 11th, 2010

Recreating the partition table is going to be tricky... You'll either need to have a very intelligent recovery program or you need to know exactly at which blocks which partition starts and where they end.

You could try to use a data recovery program to recover data from the 'lost partitions' and write that data to a backup disk. Then format the drive and create the partitions again and restore the recovered data to them, that's probably the easiest way to do this as far as I know (never had this problem).