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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