This is all a very good example of why you never play around with your important machine.

Aka, one machine for Quicken, Turbotax, your resumes, etc, and another one for mythTV, MAME, kids games, etc, and possibly even a third for testing new OS's, patch levels, etc.

And yes, one day I will have three working computers at my house (aka, all working at the same time).

-Steve

Jeff Anderson wrote:
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


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