For the record, it was a little bigger than 1.44 Mb (loaf is Linux On A Floppy).
Someone else pointed out that he has used Tiramisu. Well I looked that up, and
it's now called Easyrecovery, by Ontrack. They had a free version that will
recover 5 files at a time. So I tried it out. After 3 hours, I could see my data.
Easyrecovery presents a virtual drive, and allows one to COPY the data from the
bad drive to another disk that DOS can SEE.
So I'm trying to justify spending ~$500 on a second hard drive and the full
version of the Easyrecovery (~$300 for a hd, $200 for the program), which I
can't. At the same time I'm thinking it's time to do backups.
Disk drives are cheap enough that I can't see buying a tape drive. I only need
the most recent copy of my data, so I might just buy a 20 gig drive, install
windows on it, make it the boot drive. Run the free Easyrecovery on my 16 gig (I
pretty sure I didn't use more that 10 gigs), recover my Quicken files, recover my
resume. I could then just use the 16 gig as a backup disk after I feel I have all
my relevant data.
I can't just use a floppy for the recover destination, as my Quicken data file is
bigger then 1.44 Mb (4 or 5 years of data).
So I have a new question for the group. I read somewhere that putting a disk on
the same ide cable as a CD-ROM slows the disk to the speed of the CD-ROM. Is this
true? I only plan on using that disk for backup purposes, but I was just
wondering if any one had some words of wisdom.
After I recover, I think I will send a patch to the 'dd' maintainers. The patch
would ask 'Do you really want to overwrite that device? (Yes/No)' by default, and
have a 'don't ask' option for batch programs.
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> 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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