On 07/14/18 15:16, Chris Bennett wrote: > I very carefully and surely tested which flash drive to use and then > pulled out the wrong one. > I stopped the install with halt and done nothing else. > Should I have yanked it, halted it or just said goodbye? > > ddrescue or something else or nothing else?
It depends on when you stopped the install. If you had just done the disk layout, you could probably create (using OpenBSD) a FAT32 partition that covered the entire disk (where did your original start? you might have to recreate some history on an identical device here to find out) and see if your data is intact. It very well could be. If you completed the install...uh...you have got a problem. Still, there are tools around now that will find, with amazing success, particular types of files on "overwritten" media, though of course anything that was actually overwritten is not going to be recovered. Nick.
