Re: boot record recovery??
Hi,
I already tried to guess the partitions with fdisk, so i don't have the
partition table anymore.
Anyway, i KNOW what i wrote to it. I did "dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/hda",
so it's the debian rescue disk that was written to the beginning of the
hda drive.
-- nico
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Benoit.Joly wrote:
> it's me again...
>
> go in linux and enter in fdisk...
>
> send us the output of the partition table (p key)
>
> 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
> >
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