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Hello guys,
accidentally I've overwritten my external hard drive with the latest archlinux image. *damn*
The partition sdb1 on it was decrypted and mounted when I used dd-command to write directly on /dev/sdb.
Is there any chance to recover the files? My disk is 250GB big, so perhaps dd wrotes the ~160MB only to a part of the drive and the rest can be recovered?
Best regards
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Sorry, but I think you're hosed. Hope you have a recent backup. From wikipedia: "It is jokingly said to stand for "disk destroyer", "data destroyer", or "delete data", since, being used for low-level operations on hard disks, a small mistake, such as reversing the if and of parameters, can possibly result in the loss of all or some data on a disk."
Last edited by graysky (2010-05-30 20:14:50)
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Searching the forum for "recover" returns a few results, including http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97356 which seems to be at least somewhat interesting...
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I think testdisk would be the way to go, but considering that your external partition was encrypted (with cryptsetup, right?) I think the data is unrecoverable...
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Well, you could always try something like foremost; http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
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