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Partition for reinstaling

  • 02-04-2010 2:49pm
    #1
    paconnors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭


    hi there is it easy to make a partition on laptop so if i ever need to reinstall i dont need the disks, cause i accedently deleated the orginal partition.


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  • #2
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Well, its easy to make one, and your data (restore partition) is probably still there. However the partition table would have to be restored to the way it was, so the file system thats in the now missing partition can be read. Do you know anyone with an identical laptop?

    If you can find someone with the same laptop and a live linux CD, you can copy the partition table to a USB stick with a command line like this

    dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/sda1 bs=512 count=1

    the output, "of=/mnt/sda1" may vary with the distribution

    a similar (reversed) command can restore the table on another (your?) machine


  • #3
    paconnors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    no i dont know anybody with a simler laptop


  • #4
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Someone else reading this thread might though. If you don't tell us what it is we'll never know !


  • #5
    paconnors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    any help at all please


  • #6
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Someone else reading this thread might though. If you don't tell us what it is we'll never know !

    For some reason I didn't get an edit button on this thread...

    Maybe I wasn't clear,so...

    If you post the model no etc details, someone reading this post may have access to an identical machine, and may be able (possibly with assistance) to help you.
    But if you don't identify it , they can't


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