-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom H wrote: > 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. You may want to try testdisk. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEbBAEBAgAGBQJL/v3bAAoJEBgaXYoZ++87xlQH+LNe5InZxVA8es4mXGN8XoFf AFCq4lWnpvDLQtq2hNZ+BtJ2p/k6DbDe7Mw5dxEPiKFcKwEq13L9J+xEHk7hBvIG 7c+Bp65qj1Q/nYUzsPrQKt4heDVFrpkd0iSt3FQjRi2drYR9YK13lohbUQw4C9V1 6T64Os4MLYIPnetTIE2mKxOnsInLI5wEOfceoaW9vg+8YyEt/EOXwd3MqI/PM6Q1 cBd8HJCNBYwJ+ykJsZdpbi0a2r24CqQPdXoXu9BgaE1fGXbPNyYFFL0uVxoABisA cRTjxzDmVSk5tOdtQ0Fijydvcuhb4u2Rb9qx2wnEhCVG8Cwe+LGFPvA3uuyxUA== =VT84 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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