Well i did back up my important stuff, not that I'm dumb enough to trust anything important to windows :)
On Dec 17, 2007 2:31 PM, Steven Alligood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >> > >> > > > > /* > 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. */
