[WBEL-users] Corrupted WBEL Format

Ed Morrison emorrison@ncen.org
Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:08:48 -0700


Pantz,

Thanks for the heads up.  I was beyond the point for using this but I
will put it in my war chest....thanks!

Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Pianta [mailto:pantz@lqt.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:05 PM
> To: Ed Morrison
> Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Corrupted WBEL Format
> 
> Ed Morrison wrote:
> 
> >Help! .......please!!!  :-)
> >
> >Ed
> >
> >
> Hey Ed
> 
> If it's not already too late you could maybe try a groovy little tool
> that saved me once called gpart. I got stung by the kernel-2.6 bug
that
> screws with the disk geometry and my partition table got wiped out
(well
> i wiped it with a dd of zeroes to mbr - not a good move :\). gpart
> guesses where your old partition lines were and re-writes them. gpart
> only makes an educated guess but when you are at the end of the rope
...
> 
> p.s. - gpart's guess was spot on for me!
> 
> pantz
> 
> --
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> That way when you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have
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