Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-07 Thread cheng chen
Thank you for you all. I used "dd & hexedit" to fix the MBR. And then with disk recovery software I gain most of files back. It makes me thrilled. Thanks again. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Hiisi wrote: > su, 2011-02-06 kello 10:41 -0600, Richard Shaw kirjoitti: > > You overwrote a lot more t

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Hiisi
su, 2011-02-06 kello 10:41 -0600, Richard Shaw kirjoitti: > You overwrote a lot more than the partition table but I have had luck > with testdisk in the past. It's available on System Rescue CD, or in > the fedora repos if you still have a bootable system. > > I also vote for testdisk. However w

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, cheng chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have > 400GB d

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 02/06/2011 07:20 AM, cheng chen wrote: > Hi all, > > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I > have 400GB data in t

Re: misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 06 February 2011 15:20:53 cheng chen wrote: > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have > 400GB data in

misuse command dd, how to recover

2011-02-06 Thread cheng chen
Hi all, I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have 400GB data in the disk which means other data are still there. Is there an