On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
>>> Like a bonehead, I did this:
>>> dd if=loaf1.img of=/dev/hda1

Benjamin Scott wrote:
>> Derek's right, you are well and truly screwed.  You blew away the partition
>> table, the media descriptor, the root directory, and the file allocation
>> tables.

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> Is the partition table gone?  He overwrote hda1, not hda ...

  Er, you are right, his partition table is intact.  Unfortunately, all that
means in this case is that he knows where on the disk his filesystem *used* to
be.  :-(

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