On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, cheng chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just input a wrong output device file of the dd command > > it should be "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc" > > but I input "dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdb", > > so my hard disk partition is ruined. The xxx.iso is just 3GB, but I have > 400GB data in the disk which means other data are still there. > Is there anything I can do to get the files back to me. It's partition type > is NTFS.
You overwrote a lot more than the partition table but I have had luck with testdisk in the past. It's available on System Rescue CD, or in the fedora repos if you still have a bootable system. It worked to recover my NTFS partition but I only overwrode the partition, not the data. Richard -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
