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Re: boot record recovery??



hi, maybe you should look at the partition-rescue howto...

http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue.html

if you still can access your linux partition, i think your partition 
table is ok.

did you try to reinstall lilo and try to boot dos with it?
maybe by chance you just lost the mbr... (i hope for ya it's the case)

Benoit

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, scratch wrote:

> Hi people,
> 
> I've been extremely stupid a few moments ago. I did 'dd if=resc.bin
> of=/dev/hda' instead of 'of=/dev/fd0'. I accidentally rewrote the first
> data on my first hard disk!!
> 
> This is what my partition table on /dev/hda was like: hda1 & hda2.
> hda1: win95 partition (fat16), bootable, approx. 1.5 gig
> hda2: linux native, rest of the drive, approx. 1 gig
> 
> lilo was installed on this drive, 'dd' reported 2880 records written to
> /dev/hda.
> 
> I'm desperately searching for a way to recover my data. Does anyone know a
> dirty way to do this, preferably with as little damage as possible? 
> Maybe anyone has got experience with specific software to deal with this
> kind of problem? (could eg. Partition Magic do "magic" here?)
> 
> This was not my linux root disk, so I can still access that (with a
> bootdisk ofcourse). A DOS partition is more dramatic.
> 
> --thanks in advance!
> --nico
> 
> --:: Nico Galoppo ::--------------------------------------------------
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