I need your help.
I have lost a partition due to bad usage of gparted. I need to restore MBR from a vmdk file that I created before. The VMDK is not a whole virtual disk but just the headers pointing to the physical device. (using raw partition as a virtual disk). I created that file from the original physical drive and worked like a charm. I got two different files:
- Windows 7-0.vmdk. This is the "pointer" to the physical drive, I'm dumping the contentents here.
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
encoding="UTF-8"
CID=8b0b0bcb
parentCID=ffffffff
isNativeSnapshot="no"
createType="partitionedDevice"
# Extent description
RW 63 FLAT "Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk" 0
RDONLY 1985 FLAT "/dev/sda" 63
RW 314572800 FLAT "/dev/sda" 2048
RDONLY 979208192 FLAT "/dev/sda" 314574848
RW 1293795328 ZERO
RW 63 FLAT "Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk" 63
RDONLY 1985 FLAT "/dev/sda" 2587578431
RW 1038336 ZERO
RW 63 FLAT "Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk" 126
RDONLY 1985 FLAT "/dev/sda" 2588618815
RW 1044480 ZERO
RW 63 FLAT "Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk" 189
RDONLY 1985 FLAT "/dev/sda" 2589665343
RW 309663744 ZERO
RW 63 FLAT "Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk" 252
RDONLY 1985 FLAT "/dev/sda" 2899331135
RW 1044480 ZERO
RW 63 FLAT "Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk" 315
RDONLY 1985 FLAT "/dev/sda" 2900377663
RW 29882368 ZERO
RW 15152 ZERO
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.toolsVersion = "9283"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255"
ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "51329"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16383"
ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9f 9d 79 5f 9f-7c 0a 25 f0 ef ba 13 77"
ddb.longContentID = "298ca37d0efbc707f4155fa58b0b0bcb"
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"
ddb.uuid.image="09951131-7174-4d97-8fcb-11cfa20b6288"
The other file is binary and is called Windows 7-0-pt.vmdk.
I need to rebuild my original partition table from VMDK.
This is my actual output for sfdisk (/dev/sda2 is incorrect):
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors
/dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size=314572800, Id= 7, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start=440092672, size=2147485696, Id= 7
/dev/sda3 : start=2587578368, size=342698800, Id= 5
/dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/sda5 : start=2587580416, size= 1038336, Id=82
/dev/sda6 : start=2588620800, size= 1044480, Id=83
/dev/sda7 : start=2589667328, size=309663744, Id=83
/dev/sda8 : start=2899333120, size= 1044480, Id=83
/dev/sda9 : start=2900379648, size= 29882368, Id=83
HELP, PLEASE, HELP!
Any advice is highly appreciated, thank you.
