[Cialug] Oops! dd'd hard drive

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> Embcop - embedded ipcop for soekris.  I think about 4 GB, but the drive is like 300 GB.
>
> -Nate
>
>> 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?

I've recovered from something like this before. I was fortunate in
that I had a copy of the partition table (as output from fdisk -l) so
I just recreated the partitions the way they were and didn't format.
4G is a lot, I don't know what to expect.

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