On Tuesday 03 October 2006 07:58, Rohan Dighe wrote: > Inline reponses follow:- > > > Yes it can be when you have sata disks which are sd* because of scsi > > emulation of sata. AFAIK, when you use dd the device should be > > umounted. Can you tell more about the scenario when your partition > > table crashed? > > I don't have any of the SATA disks. I had inserted my pen drive into > USB2 slot and used this command, in sec's it crashed my entire > partition table, i had 120Gb of important data on that. > This is the command i had given > > dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/<device> (device=sda1)
Did you check with dmesg tha /dev/sda1 was the device? IIRC, it should be /dev/sda. Pen drives don't have partitions.. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
