lost Hdd, mbr wiped

xhhux · 2009-02-01 05:28:49

somehow after my arch install, the MBR on my primary storage drive got wiped

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many moun....(etc)

so is there a way that i can restore it? all it was was one giant ext3 partition.

ichbinesderelch · 2009-02-01 09:05:05

may it happen that you installed grub on /dev/sda1? maybe a fsck would help with your problem, otherwise clear mbr, fixboot and install grub in /dev/sda

xhhux · 2009-02-01 10:22:30

nothing worked, but it's no problem, because i found a backup drive with /most/ of my data still on it

consider this thread closed

R00KIE · 2009-02-01 13:57:16

Give testdisk a go, might not help much but if you didn't overwrite anything you may be able to get everything back.

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lost Hdd, mbr wiped

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Re: lost Hdd, mbr wiped

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