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Dan Z
February 15th, 2016, 02:35 AM
Running UBUNTU 14.04,only OS on hard drive.

Today while using Clonzilla to create an image of /sda, my UPS burped and the PC lost power. The PC recovered ok, but when I tried to start another image job I got an error in Clonzilla:

"unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sda", then Clonzila terminated.

I also noticed that on boot-up, now I get the GRUB screen. I don't think I used to get that, but I could be wrong, as I let the machine run many days without re-booting and just may not have noticed.

Otherwise the machine seems to be working fine.

I see I can use Gparted to fix the partition table, but don't wan't to make matters worse.

Or will a restore from backup do it?

Thanks for any advice DAN