On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 08:55 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 2013-06-23 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 23:36 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > If you have important data on the laptop, you should plug in an > > > external drive and dd the entire laptop drive to an image file on the > > > external drive (which must have at least as much free space as the > > > laptop drive's size). > > A very good advice, so the OP can try to recover it as often as needed, > > by dd'ing it back. > > dd'ing an alive system would drive to filesystem inconsistencies. > A running system, with running applications, I mean. > I wouldnt trust that.
It's not running! The OP should dd the whole drive that neither does start Linux nor Windows to a backup drive and then the OP could try to repair 1. the bootloader 2. if needed the partition table/partitions If this should damage more, then it should repair, it would be possible to recover the original broken drive, with it's original broken data and to try recovering again. This has to be done with e.g. a live CD including at least GParted and TestDisk, e.g. www.partedmagic.com . GParted is needed assumed the recovering should work, to install Linux parallel to Windows. Without a time machine the OP has to close the barn door after the horse has escaped ;)! Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371979849.1637.10.camel@archlinux
