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Hello. I have a 1tb external HDD, on which all my data was backed up. It was in excess of 250GB of data. The drive was plugged into a USB port when I decided to insert a flash drive into another port, in order to to use the dd command to make a live usb stick of a distro I wanted to try out. I accidently neglected to run sudo fdisk -l, and launched the dd program with /dev/sdc as the target. This was actually the drive where all my backup was stored; not the flash drive. I managed to pull the drive out within a second or two, but now when I plug the external HDD back in, my data is gone.
I am completely inexperienced in regards to data recovery, especially on Linux. I am wondering if there is a way to salvage/recover my data. Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_recovery
Read the first paragraph several times before doing anything.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_recovery
Read the first paragraph several times before doing anything.
Thanks. I feel like a complete asshole as it is for such a careless mistake; I won't even attempt to fix this on my own.
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Yikes! I'm sorry.
VERY IMPORTANT: Do not mount the drive!!! When you do eventually start working on the drive, do it READ-ONLY. Then, go from there! (reading the instructions on the Arch Wiki)
When I had an external hard drive that failed (for some reason), I was able to recover all of the photos, videos, and documents by using "photorec". Good luck!
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If the external hard drive was your backup then surely you still have the original data on your system...
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If the external hard drive was your backup then surely you still have the original data on your system...
I think the original poster was using the term "backed up" colloquially, which would have the same meaning as "saved to".
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slithery wrote:If the external hard drive was your backup then surely you still have the original data on your system...
I think the original poster was using the term "backed up" colloquially, which would have the same meaning as "saved to".
With modern portable systems having about a quarter of the storage we used to take for granted (due to HDD/SSD differing costs) this would not be a surprise.
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