I’m trying to copy an NTFS partition from an external USB drive to a spare partition on the internal IDE drive of my laptop. In the process, before I’d even so much as gotten Ghost to start doing anything, Windows XP managed to write a copy of the external drive’s partition table over that of the internal drive, rendering the internal drive unbootable, and not easily recoverable.
Fortunately the Linux program “gpart” seems to have the ability to scan a disk, find the probable locations of partitions, and build a new partition table. gpart is included in the Fedora Core CDs (32-bit only?), which can be used in rescue mode. I’m running the scan now.
Geez, what a nightmare.