[COLUG] Recovering hosed Thinkpad R&R partition

[Jim]

David Riggs wrote:

> I hosed my MBR in the process of trying to rezise partitions 

> Now it freezed with a GRUB error 22. I tired to 
> recover with Knoppix, but had no luck.

> I have no CD backups: they don't give you any and this machine has no 
> burner (I got it cheap from Lenovo, now just out of warrenty).

Having hosed the MBR, with the possibility of doing further 
hosage while trying to recover, I'd backup the mess I have 
with dd. Something like: 

  dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.0.whatever 2000

from Knoppix could squirt the bits to some other box with a 
big hard drive and optionally a CD/DVD burner. 

Then I can relax while trying to figure out how to 
restore or create the MBR. At least I don't have 
to worry about screwing things up further.