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On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to recover data form a wiped drive?
>
> I inadvertently shredded the wrong drive. Instead of using /dev/sdb,
> which refers to my external USB drive, I used /dev/sda, which is my
> internal drive. Here are what the last few lines from the shred look
> like as well as the output from an od:
>
> # shred -v -n 0 -z /dev/sda
> ...
> shred: /dev/sda: pass 1/1 (000000)...73GiB/75GiB 97%
> shred: /dev/sda: pass 1/1 (000000)...74GiB/75GiB 99%
> shred: /dev/sda: pass 1/1 (000000)...75GiB/75GiB 100%
> # od -bc /dev/sda
> 0000000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
> \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
> *
> 1124174260000
> #
>
> Nothing but a bunch of zeros. Notice this isn't just a partition.
> It's the entire drive. So, the partition table, all the partitions,
> all the extended partitions, swap space, and all filesystems are no
> longer visible.
>
> Is this data pretty much gone, or is there some "low-level" stuff that
> I can do to get back the data, even just a few files?
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> >
>
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