On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 13:15 +0530, Varadharajan Mukundan wrote: > Hi all, > > Today, when i tried to create a Debian Bootable USB stick as shown in > http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/02/25/installing-linux-on-usb-part-7-install-debian-linux-from-usb-drive/ > . In the step, where the boot.img.gz file is extracted, i > accidentally gave the zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda which is my hard > drive instead of USB. After that i could not boot the computer. BIOS > is not responding. Is it due to a corrupted BIOS or some other > hardware failures? My laptop is Compaq Presario CS40-145TU.
This is completely expected, you just overwrote part of your hard-drive, including the partition table. The good news is that your hardware is probably fine. The bad news is that recovering data isn't straightforward, so if you had nothing critical on this laptop, wipe and reinstall. If you did have something critical on it, then you might want to try testdisk and its companions. Good luck, -- Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
