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The title says it all. This is actually my first, so I popped my own cherry.
I managed to dd the first 87 MB of my hdd before realizing what i did and stopping it.
I'm running testdisk on it right now, but in case that fails, anything else I can try?
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gpart was mentioned in a similar case, but OP opted for a clean install: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=108101
Last edited by karol (2010-11-10 18:10:13)
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well, the first 87MB are likely gone. you could use dd_rescue to move everything that's left to an image, reformat, then put it back.
sorry man...
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If it's only the first 87MB that's not a problem, but so far testdisk isn't giving results...
dd_rescue sounds interesting...
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If it's only the first 87MB that's not a problem, but so far testdisk isn't giving results...
dd_rescue sounds interesting...
I remember deleting my partition table, it wasn't the first 87 MB or anything, but I got my /proc/partitions and used that with parted's rescue command.
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I once tried to install Windows 2000 Professional on a partition on one of my SATA-drives, the installation completely nuked the partition table for some reason.
The solution: I just created an identical partition setup on the drive and there was much rejoicing.
RTFM or GTFO
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I once tried to install Windows 2000 Professional on a partition on one of my SATA-drives, the installation completely nuked the partition table for some reason.
The solution: I just created an identical partition setup on the drive and there was much rejoicing.
If the underlying partitions are OK, testdisk should be able recreate a partition table for them just fine.
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