On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 08:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:32:51 +0100, >> Mike Martin <redtux1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with >> > the F13 live image I accidentally did the following >> > >> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 >> > >> > which returned nearly immediately and now I have no data on the disk. >> > >> > The disk is 750 gig , of which about 400 is used. I am hoping that >> > only the partition table is gone, if not is there any way to recover >> > from my disaster >> >> I believe that command just changed the first 512 bytes. If you know how >> it was partitioned you can probably get things back by making a new >> partition table. > > The MBR and the partition tablrhave been destroyed. If you know what the > partition table looked like fdisk can restore it. Restoring grub might > also restore the MBR. You can try to use gpart to determine the partition boundaries and sizes and then use fdisk to restore them. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
