Comments on: Partition Table Backup

By: Eu

Eu — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:15:52 +0000

If your disk has extended partitions with logical partitions inside and these were created with a tool that doesn’t use a 63 sector offset from the extended boot record (trust me, these exist), doing this will not get you the exact partitions you are trying to backup once you restore.

To this day I haven’t found a tool that actually dumps all the necessary information and restores it.

By: Jason Boon

Jason Boon — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:59:34 +0000

For windows users:
You can still use free linux tools without needing to install them on your computer. Just run directly off a cd

Download system rescue CD
Burn the image to a CD ROM
Insert CDRom and reboot your computer

You are now running a version of linux designed for system repair. It has not mounted or touched your hard drive in any way which makes it perfect for fixing corrupt partitions, or finding lost data.

By: Allen Halsey

Allen Halsey — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:12:39 +0000

@Non_E
1) The partition table is contained in the 64 bytes starting at byte 446 of the MBR.
2) An advantage of sfdisk over dd is that sfdisk can handle logical partitons.

By: Raskas' blog Â» Dump script

Raskas' blog Â» Dump script — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:26:09 +0000

[...] You can find the dump script here. More Information about the dumping of the partition table can be found on MDLog:/sysadmin. [...]

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By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:26:19 +0000

Rohit,

Sorry but I have no idea… There should be some expensive comercial software to allow you to do that. .

By: Rohit

Rohit — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:40:15 +0000

How to do it for windows operating system? This is not working on XP

By: Hgi

Hgi — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:08:33 +0000

thnx for your lovely n valuable writings,

could you pls refer in details about using the part.-table info. (just printed text or stored in a file) for restoring a damaged HD/file-system etc.
because after you showed us a simple way of storing, what is the simple way for restoring a damaged HD or file-system. it seems to me complicate procedure e.g. booting the PC using a bootable cd (LiveCD?), logging in using root password? entering a certain recovering mode?, mounting disk? mounting floppy (carrying the part.-table in a file)? running command for recovering the partition table? …

Storing can not stand alone, the other must-have half is restoring
could you elaborate more?
many thnx in advance

By: Raskas’ blog » Dump script

Raskas’ blog » Dump script — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:42:00 +0000

[...] You can find the dump script here. More Information about the dumping of the partition table can be found on MDLog:/sysadmin. [...]

By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:19:25 +0000

You should use whatever method you personally like.
I like the sfdisk method because its dump is in a readable form and you can easily use that info to recreate the partitions manually if needed.