Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-31 Thread Mike Martin
On 28 May 2010 18:44, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike Martin wrote: >> On 27 May 2010 19:18, Larry Brower wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Tom H wrote: > > [...] > >>> You may want to try testdisk. >>> >>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download > > +1 > >

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Martin wrote: > On 27 May 2010 19:18, Larry Brower wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Tom H wrote: [...] >> You may want to try testdisk. >> >> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download +1 I tried out testdisk on a disk with no problems a couple of yea

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Mike Martin wrote: > Well I've made some progress, I have my /,boot and home via parted rescue > Only problem is that now parted only sees swap as p4, rather than an > extended partition with swap and my main 711 Gig storage partition You know where the extended partition starts and ends, you ju

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Martin
On 27 May 2010 19:18, Larry Brower wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Aaron Konstam > 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 wr

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Aaron Konstam 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 wrote: Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a b

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Aaron Konstam 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 wrote: >> > Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with >> > the F13 live image I accidentally did

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Aaron Konstam
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 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 c

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Martin 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. Which is a sick feeling. There

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 05/27/2010 02:07 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:32:51 +0100, > Mike Martin 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 >> >> whic

Re: Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:32:51 +0100, Mike Martin 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

Recover stupid mistake

2010-05-27 Thread Mike Martin
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