Recovering a Deleted Partition Table

The Linux Partition HOWTO has a section on how to reconstruct a
partition table that got wiped out. It's pretty slick:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/recovering.html

Of course, this is a last resort. The better thing would be to
already have a current copy of your partition table on a floppy
disk. The table is part of the Master Boot Record (MBR), which
is the first sector on your hard drive. To save a copy, run this
command as root:

dd if=/dev/hda of=my-hda.mbr bs=512 count=1

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