14th April 2017, 13:43
Testdisk both finds the deleted partition (sda9) as well as the partition I wanted to expand (sda10). They are shown in green and the detected size seems very reasonable for what I had before my expand operation in gparted, but I am not sure what to do with it. I do not have the option "write". It is not easy to provide a screenshot as somehow the PartitionMagic does not accept even my USB stick.
I had another idea: I made a backup the same day of my maui partition (sda13) with fsarchiver. AND I included the partition table "save PBR". So couldn't I simply restore the PBR from this backup or is the file partition table still a separate thing? Or is PBR not sufficient for the task?
In this case I would like to know an easy (maybe GUI) way to backup partition tables and what else is needed for such cases.
I had another idea: I made a backup the same day of my maui partition (sda13) with fsarchiver. AND I included the partition table "save PBR". So couldn't I simply restore the PBR from this backup or is the file partition table still a separate thing? Or is PBR not sufficient for the task?
In this case I would like to know an easy (maybe GUI) way to backup partition tables and what else is needed for such cases.