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Matthew Gillen wrote: > > As long as you haven't touched it yet (ie tried to mount/format), you can > just set it back to a single big partition and you should be good to go. > You can screw up partition tables badly, as long as you can put them back > exactly like they were before, the filesystems will never be the wiser. That is true of the GNU/Linux partitioning tools; they only write the partition table and leave the rest of the disk alone. Exception: creating extended partitions will damage data because the partitioning data for those is stored at the beginning of the partitions themselves. You can read more at http://home.att.net/~rayknights/pc_boot/ext_tbls.htm DOS is another story. FDISK clears at least the first sector of any partition it creates so that the partition will appear empty to the FORMAT program. I don't know whether that is also true of the partition tools in current versions of Windows.
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