dd to recover lost win partition?

[Guest Adriano]

I don't even know if this is the right place, but I have the following problem and I'm away from the hard disk involved.

 

One of our Windows machines had a problem, and as a result the partition table of its disk is now corrupted. A friend of mine, who is trying to fix it, asked me if dd would copy everything in the HD to a file elsewhere, in spite of it not having a valid partition table. After copying it, he'll try to salvage what he can from that.

The HD was running Win 95, the type of partition is FAT32.

 

My questions, then:

-Is dd capable of doing that?

-Is dd the right tool for this job, or would you recommend something else?

-Is there any other way to recover that partition from Linux?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Michel]

I have never had to do it myself, but here is what I know:

dd copies bits and so I believe, so yes it will copy everything I suppose.

this can also maybe help, but it isn't teh same as dd (dd is really lowlevel): http://www.partimage.org/

 

However, there are utilities under linux for recovering the partition table

There was a newer onbe I think, but here is one I found (but seems old ..):

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

 

parted can also help with some mroe effort I think:

http://www.partimage.org/ (see documentation)

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/...ono/parted.html -> rescue

 

hopes it helps some