Accidentally changed mbr to gpt

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johnfg
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Joined: 04 Dec 2015, 03:47

Accidentally changed mbr to gpt

#1 Post by johnfg »

Would testdisk be able to recover or fix my mistake I made with parted? I accidentally ran mklabel gpt.

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Fiona
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Re: Accidentally changed mbr to gpt

#2 Post by Fiona »

What's your OS, file system and size of your disk?
Did you create another partition and format it?
As long as you've nothing written to your disk, TestDisk could help?

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johnfg
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Re: Accidentally changed mbr to gpt

#3 Post by johnfg »

I was running debian Linux, 2 different versions. there are 10 partitions, /dev/sda1 - /dev/sda10. My plan was to install Gentoo Linux in place of one of the debian's. So, I booted the minimal install cd, ran parted, then ran the command: `mklabel gpt`, which I didn't need to do, and shouldn't have done, since I had a working mbr. I've not run anything but `print` from parted since. I'm really hoping that testdisk can help.

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