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 <redtux1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > The disk is 750 gig , of which about 400 is used. I am hoping that > > only the partition table is gone, if not is there any way to recover > > from my disaster > > I believe that command just changed the first 512 bytes. If you know how > it was partitioned you can probably get things back by making a new > partition table. The MBR and the partition tablrhave been destroyed. If you know what the partition table looked like fdisk can restore it. Restoring grub might also restore the MBR. -- ======================================================================= Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -- Thoreau ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
