Re: [Thinkpad] Clone/boot problem

gpart is actually from Guess PARTition
gparted is the Gnome PARTition EDitor

Be sure to read the gpart guide before using it, though.

On 1/15/07, David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> > > I will try Bruce's suggestion (I've tried a bunch of other programs
> > > which claim the same functionality), but I think Partition Magic
> just
> > > hosed one of the partitions,
> >
> >
> > You may want to try the System Rescue CD - www.sysresccd.org. It's
> free, and
> > one of the included utilites is gpart, which can guess a partition
> table
> > from a messed drive with a very good success rate. I've used it to fix
> > several of my own drives.
>
> It was the data partition on the cloned disk, so noncritical.
> Fortunately, when PM also wanted to 'fix' my working source drive, I had
> the presence of mind to say no.
>
> I do have this CD in my utilities box, but would probably have used one
> of the programs from ultimatebootcd or hiren's first, just because they
> tend to be at hand. However, it is useful to know that gpart (is the
> 'g' from Gnu, or from Gnome?) works well.
>
> David
>
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