[Cialug] Oops! dd'd hard drive

[Nathan C. Smith]

I think I just dd'd one of the partitions.  How would I go about seeing what files are left on the partition?

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:40 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Oops! dd'd hard drive
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nathan C. Smith
> <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> > Embcop - embedded ipcop for soekris.  I think about 4 GB,
> but the drive is like 300 GB.
> >
> > -Nate
> >
> >> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Nathan C. Smith
> >> <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >  My evil twin (the one with the fu-manchu beard) dd'd a
> >> firmware image to my hard drive.  I think I'm SOL but I just
> >> wanted to confirm it before I install the latest version of Ubuntu.
> >> >
> >> >  Any chance of recovering files of the part of the drive
> >> that wasn't dd'd and what tool should I try?
>
> I've recovered from something like this before. I was fortunate in
> that I had a copy of the partition table (as output from fdisk -l) so
> I just recreated the partitions the way they were and didn't format.
> 4G is a lot, I don't know what to expect.
>
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