[TriLUG] HD Partition Recovery

[Sinner from the Prairy]

On Friday 16 May 2003 11:40 am, Michael Donaghy wrote:
> Yesterday I accidentally performed this command
>   dd if=boot.img of=/dev/hda bs=1440k count=1
> notice the "hda" instead of "fd0".  Ooops.
> Yes, I know using root isn't a good idea & that I
> should back up my data more often.  :)

I've done a similar thing (big doh!). And I got my disk back. And using an 
opensource tool.  :)

Check out the utility "testdisk" that comes in Knoppinx... or get it from 
testdisk's developer's webpage:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

It's available for different platforms. It takes a while to understand the 
progam. But it works very well. You don't need luck, you need this program.



Salut,
Sinner
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