Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

[linux guy]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:02 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
<tchollingsworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:02 PM, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any way to sniff out the old partition table ?    What would
>> I need other than the partition table sizes ?    I know I had boot,
>> swap and / partitions...
>
> Try testdisk.  It will attempt to identify and restore partitions on a disk.

TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier at cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org


Disk /dev/sdd - 160 GB / 149 GiB - INTEL SS DSA2M160G2GC

Please select the partition table type, press Enter when done.
>[Intel  ] Intel/PC partition
 [EFI GPT] EFI GPT partition map (Mac i386, some x86_64...)
 [Humax  ] Humax partition table
 [Mac    ] Apple partition map
 [None   ] Non partitioned media
 [Sun    ] Sun Solaris partition
 [XBox   ] XBox partition
 [Return ] Return to disk selection

After selecting an Intel/PC partition type, testdisk finds no
partitions on the initial and the deeper scans.  Not a thing.