On Monday 10 December 2007, Adam wrote: > To migrate files to my new system, I temporarily connected a PATA drive > from my previous system and copied my files to the new drive. I figured > I was done with the old drive, and didn't want whoever had it next to be > able to read my files, so I TOTALLY clobbered the old drive's partition > table by writing garbage over that sector. Not the coolest move, I now > realize. Then of course I managed to delete the data that I'd copied > onto the new drive. I think there is a lesson somewhere in this for all > of us, especially me.
They're called backups. :-/ > Of course now when I connect my old PATA drive to my new system, it > doesn't even recognize it, presumably because the MBR/partition table is > total garbage. Fortunately, I have copies of the MBR and each VBR for > this drive. Is there any way to copy these back onto my old drive? > Thanks VERY much in advance! Long ago I had a similar sort of problem; essentially I had attempted to use 'dd' to install a loader but had overwritten too many blocks and had clobbered the partition table. My method of getting the data back was to re-enter the partition from memory using fdisk. If you made partitions of the same size (or the same # of blocks) you could use this method. As you have backups of the old partition table, Mike's method is most likely the better choice. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
