misuse command dd, how to recover

[cheng chen]

Thank you for you all. I used "dd & hexedit" to fix the MBR. And then with
disk recovery software I gain most of files back.
It makes me thrilled. Thanks again.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Hiisi <hiisi at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> su, 2011-02-06 kello 10:41 -0600, Richard Shaw kirjoitti:
> > You overwrote a lot more than the partition table but I have had luck
> > with testdisk in the past. It's available on System Rescue CD, or in
> > the fedora repos if you still have a bootable system.
> >
> >
>
> I also vote for testdisk. However when I used it recently I had no luck
> with version provided by fedora (testdisk-6.11-6). So, I contacted
> Christophe Grenier (testdisk developer) and he suggested me to try
> TestDisk 6.12-WIP:
> wget -N http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-6.12-WIP.linux26.tar.bz2
> tar xjf testdisk-6.12-WIP.linux26.tar.bz2
> cd testdisk-6.12-WIP
> sudo ./testdisk_static
> HTC
> --
> If Bill Gates is the Devil then Linus Torvalds must be the Messiah.
>        -- Unknown source
>
> --
> users mailing list
> users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
>



-- 
Cheng(誠)

Fedora Project Contributor -- Ambassador
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Freakrobot
_______________________________________________

My Page: http://freakrobot.blogbus.com/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20110207/74402130/attachment.html