I did something similar to an external hard drive. I used the wrong letter and wiped out the first meg of the partition (wrote zeros to it... glad I used the count= option in dd) I found that the program getDataBack worked well for me. I used the FAT version, but they have an NTFS version as well. It costs $40 or $50, but it got all my files back. I played with it on other volumes and I was able to recover deleted files, and it seemed to be fairly versatile.
Jeff Anderson Steve wrote: > Howdy folks, > > It was bound to happen and it finally did, while attempting reformat > an external drive I entered a typo and wiped my Vista partition. > The command I used was > sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 > > Should have been > sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 > > So ummm, anyone have any ideas on if data recovery would be possible > here, or should I just re-install? > Thanks in advance! > > Sincerely, > Steve > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
