My disk was dos labelled (MBR). So I ‘fdisk’-ed my disk and entered ‘o’ to convert it to GPT and wrote it to the disk. Now all the partitions are gone. I want those back. I care about the data rather than the partitions

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Solution:

  • install testdisk
  • run testdisk
  • choose “Create” log
  • choose target disk. Eg: /dev/sda
  • Choose appropriate partition type. Mine was MBR and I chose “Intel” and select “analyze”
  • Now you’ll see deleted partitions. Giveem appropriate flags like “*” for boot (efi partition) and “P” any other using space or arrow keys and press enter
  • choose “write” and press y on the prompt to write those found partitions to the disk.

Thanks guys for the help

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    fedilink
    21 day ago

    fdisk cannot convert the partition structure, but gdisk can, though you better have a full backup bedore attempting to do it