On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:27AM -0800, Levi Waldron wrote: > So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up > into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of > each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing > hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly > the same way as last night, > > sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt > > but it mounted!!! No errors. So I immediately backed up off-site > everything I might possibly need, including the MBR and first sectors Hi Levi, congrats on the success. A disaster averted. here is what happened to me once. I did dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb where 'a' was a small hd and 'b' was a bigger hd. I was cfdisk'ing the newer one sometime later when I made a mistake. I thought I screwed it up but did not format anything. so I used sfdisk to make a copy of the 'a' disk partion table and used it to make a copy on 'b' and this restored the 'b' hd to its former partions. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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