[Cialug] Oops! dd'd hard drive

[Colin Burnett]

I hit send too fast.

Once upon a time I formatted my flash card for my camera when I didn't
want to.  I had success searching for the JFIF magic number at the
beginning of blocks and copying contiguous blocks out into files.
There's a few utilities out there to help you out.

So if anything, you might be able to save some jpeg's if you're
patient enough and care about them.


Colin


On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Colin Burnett <cmlburnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure anyone who has a clue how to answer your question will
>  immediately respond with "what fs?" and "how big was the firmware?"
>
>
>  Colin
>
>
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>  On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  My evil twin (the one with the fu-manchu beard) dd'd a firmware image to my hard drive.  I think I'm SOL but I just wanted to confirm it before I install the latest version of Ubuntu.
>  >
>  >  Any chance of recovering files of the part of the drive that wasn't dd'd and what tool should I try?
>  >
>  >  Thanks.
>  >
>  >  -Nate
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