How to create partition "table" by fdisk?

[Yunus Emre]

Hi.
I'm using both Ubuntu 8.04 and Pardus 2008.1. Today while I'm running on Pardus 2008.1 I've made some mistaken changes - which is create partition table - on my partition table by GParted. Then it warned me, "This will erase all data on your disk." and I clicked "cancel."

A few hours later, I needed to restart Pardus. While restart I got a GRUB error 22. Then I've checked my partitions on Ubuntu live cd. There was nothing but an unformatted 250GB partition. I've googled it and learned that there is a chance of losing the partition table but not the data.

Here is my partition table, which I've printed after installation,


Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x084b084a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4292 34475458+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4293 30401 209720542+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4293 25240 168264778+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 25241 27790 20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 27791 28039 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 28040 30401 18972733+ 83 Linux

And here is my question, how to create this partition again by using fdisk, or any program that you'll suggest?

[logos34]

And here is my question, how to create this partition again by using fdisk, or any program that you'll suggest?

TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk)

(See "Current Partition Table Status (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step#Current_partition_table_stat us)", thru step 9)

good luck

*You'll need to boot from the ubuntu live cd and install it:

System>Admin>software sources>check universe repos

sudo apt-get install testdisk

sudo testdisk

[Yunus Emre]

Thanks, it worked! :)