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# 15  
Old 11-19-2010
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Originally Posted by Corona688
/dev/sdb. You don't fdisk a partition. Well, my directions would've been on how to get that partition table back. That it has is both very good and very bad news; something's seriously wrong with either the drive or the USB cage for a sector to just vanish and return like that! Also good that you posted it here. Armed with that you have enough information to recreate it from scratch if it vanishes again.

If windows doesn't see the partition table, first off I would rewrite the same partition table back to it, just 'w' from fdisk /dev/sdb. If there's anything odd in it preventing windows from seeing the partitions, that may clear it.
What would the command be? I don't see anything in my man page's of fdisk about "w".
# 16  
Old 11-19-2010
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What would the command be? I don't see anything in my man page's of fdisk about "w".
The fdisk commands are not listed in the man page for fdisk. Run fdisk and enter '?' for access to list of commands.
# 17  
Old 11-19-2010
The command is w, typed into fdisk's prompt, then the enter key. Nothing more, nothing less.

Type ? then the enter key at fdisk's prompt to see all available options.
# 18  
Old 11-22-2010
What would be a good next step? I rewrote the partition table and that didn't help Smilie.
# 19  
Old 11-23-2010
Can you mount it in linux? mkdir /mnt/whatever ; mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/sdax /mnt/whatever
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