Just now, I've accidentally wiped the first few GB of my hard drive. Luckily, this has happened before, and I added a buffer partition (which I don't care about) at the start of the drive. The overwrite only happened at that zone.
I know the exact start and end offset of my actual data partition. However, the last time this happened, I needed to recreate the partition using GParted on Linux. Is there an equally convenient tool on Windows?
Unfortunately, I could not find a similar tool to Linux fdisk. As the data is fairly important, I opted to boot my Linux VM and worked from there, as I did before. The drive is restored without damage.
The closest I could find was Active@ Disk Editor. It's freeware that could edit basically everything on a storage medium. However, it did not compute the Head-Sector-Cylinder automatically (which made Windows think the drive was unformatted), and I haven't learned how to do it manually yet.
Keeping the question open in case someone else can point to a tool that is as close as fdisk as possible, but on Windows.
