On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:51:29PM +1000, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: > > I'll only be at this company for another 2 weeks, so I don't care about the > OS and stuff. My personal data which I was just about to back up and write > to CD is going to be hard to replace.
If you let the command complete, you've got essentially no hope. You now have a hard drive completely filled with zeros and only zeros. If you interrupted it by Ctrl-C or powering down, you should hopefully have a fair bit of your drive left intact. Luckily, the command specified 1k block sizes, which is going to be relatively slow, so if you did interrupt it, you may be in luck. You'll want to try find a program that can search for ext2 superblocks, and then tries to recover based on that. I can't recall the name of the program I have in mind at the moment, so hopefully google can help. I've no idea how well these recovery programs work, as I've never had to use them. I wish you good luck in recovering your data... it's never a pleasant thing to have happen :( Regards, -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
