Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

[nick lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net>]

Dmitri Minaev wrote:
> I am afraid that nothing can be done to recover this installation. You
> still can try to recover some of your data. If your partition table is
> damaged, you may find TestDisk useful. See:
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>
> TestDisk has helped me to recover my data when I occasionally dd'ed a
> floppy image onto /dev/hda.
OK, TestDisk was able to recover all three partitions. /, swap & home. 
Really amazing free (he's getting a donation for sure) software. As a 
backup measure I copied all of home to an external hard disk.  Cfdisk 
shows (just to double check, didn't write anything) / as bootable, the 
swap and home partitions.

Tried booting after recovering  but no luck.  Maybe I need to reinstall 
grub? 

Thanks for all the help and suggestions. Really appreciated.

Nick