findpart

Utility for recovery partition table of hard disk

Sometime a unreasoned actions, viruses, hardware or software failures adduce to overwrite the first sector of hard disk. On this sector present partition table. If this sector will be broken all data on the device will be lost. But in much cases have possibility to recover all extended partitions and sometime the primary partition too.
This utility can help you recover your hard disk.

Command line:

./findpart /source/device file_to_save_old_partition_table [begin_track [end_track]]

/source/device -- e.g. /dev/hda -- for first IDE HDD, /dev/sda -- for first SATA HDD, etc..

You must direct the name for file_to_save_old_partition_table If in next, you make a changes, then you may return all back with command: cat file_to_save_old_partition_table > /source/device

To minimize search time you may direct first and last cylinder betwen that the program will be search.