unknown partition table

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 6/29/06, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > ...and 'sudo cfdisk /dev/sda' outputs:
> >
> > Unknown partition table type
> > Do you wish to start with a zero table [y/N] ?
> >
> > Does starting with a zero table mean I lose all data on the disk?
>
> Yes.
>
> > How
> > would I recover the previous partition table?
> I have no clue. For starters: Does the disk work on other Linux
> machines? Windows machines? (If you cannot check those: Does it work
> when you boot off a Linux liveCD?) Also, what do you get when you run
> gparted, gpart, sfdisk, or fdisk on the disk?
>

I have tried connecting this external drive to other Linux machines...
same problem. Running cfdisk on the drive gives the result above...
fdisk and QTParted show an empty drive.
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