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Part 3
What happens when the partition is totally lost?
Some of you allready figured that out too...
Ghost 2003 will save you. By building the partition using the sector by sector method it doesn't matter whatever happened to it as long as the size of the free space at the harddrive is the same as before. After a little less than 6 minutes I was ready to use my Xandros Desktop again. With BootIt NG it isn't that easy. It gives you an error message (something like "Unable to mount partition") and you are stuck. Is everything lost now? No, there are workarounds of course. What that came first to my mind was to reformat the partition into ReiserFS again. Now I'm not sure I have a tool for that operation so I skipped that. The other way is to insert the Xandros setup CD again and make a minimal install, or start an install and then abort as soon you are sure the format process is finished. Then reboot using the BootIt NG floppy and now restore your partition from the back up image. This method might sound somewhat tedious. In practise it's not a big problem, and frankly; How often is it a partition is totally whiped out by mistake?
Thats all, next time some conclusions and also other comments. For example, what about the others, like Acronis...?
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