
The find_drive_table program is a tool for guessing where logical
partitions are present on a hard disk.

This information is required when trying to repair a hard disk where the
extended entry in the partition table at MBR is corrupted or missing,
because without a extended entry it is impossible to access the logical
partitions.

However, do not trust the output of this program unconditionally.
The suggested cylinder numbers are just suggestions and it may very
well report false hits, so use it in combination with your knowledge
(you will at least have an idea about how large the partition(s) was
and how many) and the information provided by other programs that
tries to guess partition sizes and file systems.

Two such programs are guess_parttable written by Kjetil T. Homme
<kjetilho@ifi.uio.no> and gpart by Michail Brzitwa <mb@ichabod.han.de>.

You can get those programs at
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/people/kjetilho/guess_parttable.c
and
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
respectively.

