[TriLUG] Is all hope lost (Ubuntu 18.04)

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 06:05:58 -0500 (EST)
Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:


> However if you've just erased the partition table, the original
> partitions are still there and you can mount them even if you don't
> know where they start and end.
> 
> but first ... don't do any write operations on your scrambled disk.
> Make a dd copy of it and try to rescue the copy.

This is probably obvious, but just in case...

When you make the dd copy, make it to a completely different disk, not
the one you're trying to recover.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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SteveT

Steve Litt 
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