[Cialug] Recover fat32 logical partition(s)

[Andrew Denner]

I know this is not the nice answer, but good backups can help get rid of
the need to do forensic drive spelunking.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 3:15 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Jan 2020, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
>
> > It's not particularly weird to see partition 2 and 5 at the same
> > sector,an MBR and PBR aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, and
> > extended MBRis basically just putting a MBR in a PBR.
> >
> I just realized what happened, .. there *should* be three extended
> partitions, 3,4,5; apparently what happened is that something hosed the
> main entry on sdb2, lost partitions 3 and 4, so assigned the entire region
> to 5.
>
> So, .. I think what it needs is to recover the actual extended partition
> entries.
>
>         Thanks!
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