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HELP! Need to reconstruct partition table!

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Nevyn522

Senior member
Hey all -

I made a stupid, stupid mistake. I was attempting to install OpenBSD onto my new laptop, had made some open space via Partition Magic.

Unfortunately, I used the reinit command, which transforms any existing partitions into an OpenBSD partition... and then accidentally saved it.

Can anyone think of any way I can rewrite the partition table?

I had an NTFS partition. The settings listed on the OpenBSD partition utility were that the partition started at cylinder 178 head 1 sector 1, and went to the end. I attempted to write a new MBR/PT using those settings, and it just didn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas on what I could do to get my data off the drive? There are only a few files I don't have backed up, but those files are the ones I literally cannot replace.

Thanks,
Andrew
 
if you made a part.magic restore floppy from the git-go then yes.If not then you may need the services of a data recovery specialist.
 
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