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.
So the bad news is that this data is gone. It's not all bad as I was going to do an upgrade anyways. And all the important stuff is on backup drives, at least enough that I can't justify spending the $100+ to recover the data. Now I have the pleasure of doing an install and a configuration instead of an upgrade. :) BTW, Testdisk and PhotoRec assume that enough of the data is still on the drive to recover part or all of it. With a "shred" even the signatures of a partition or jpeg are reduced to a string of zeros. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
