[ALUG] Help me to help someone!

[Tim Green]

On 7/7/07, Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist at digimatic.co.uk> wrote:
> Asking him to do an fdisk -l or vol_id is far far safer than getting him
> to navigate the commands from the fdisk prompt as both of the above
> merely list the information we need and then exit. fdisk has bitten many
> a pro, let alone a newcomer :)

mkswap caught me out once - it doesn't check the partition is marked
as a swap partition so it nuked the first few sectors of a FAT
partition. After much buggering about with a hokey copy of Norton
Utilities I was able to reconstruct the boot sector and copy the 2nd
copy of the FAT over the remains of the first.

I suspect NTFS is not as simple as that.

Tim.