testdisk - recover partition table

Posted by Evaggelos Balaskas on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Evaggelos Balaskas
Published on 2012-11-01T09:47:22Z Indexed on 2012/11/01 11:04 UTC
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I destroyed my partition table of my laptop.

Testdisk reports the below

Disk laptop.img - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30402 255 63 (RO)
 Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
>P MS Data                   435868     456606      20739 [NO NAME]
 P MS Data                 19232600   19235479       2880 [NO NAME]
 D MS Data                 41945087   83890143   41945057
 D MS Data                 57151486  168579069  111427584
 D MS Data                 67637246  141037565   73400320
 D MS Data                151523326  193466365   41943040
 D MS Data                170617328  170618223        896
 D MS Data                170631168  170634047       2880
 D MS Data                171338232  171344405       6174 [Boot]
 D MS Data                172008235  172231918     223684 [NO NAME]
 P MS Data                193466368  214437887   20971520
 D MS Data                217321375  225321678    8000304 [root]
 D MS Data                224923646  308809725   83886080 [media]
 D MS Data                308809728  420237311  111427584
 D MS Data                418910206  481824765   62914560 [vmimages]

my partition table had 3 Primary Partitions.

 1. WinXP Home
 2. /boot
 3. LVM

inside LVM i had 9 or 10 LVM partitions One of them was my home (encrypted with luks)

testdisk cant recover my partition table or any other partition. Partitions with [P] doesnt have any useful data.

I want to use dd to extract the partitions and try to recover as many files i can. Any ideas of how i can extract eg. the [root] lvm partition from the above testdisk report ?

I am afraid that my disk was also corrupted.

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