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I finally managed to fix this. Just for the record here's how I did it. Part of the solution I found at http://linuxexpresso.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/repair-a-broken-ext4-superblock-in-ubuntu/ and it involves knowing the settings used to create the filesystem (I was pretty sure I didn't change the ...

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I still haven't managed to solve my problem could anyone give me any tips? As I mentioned before, I'm making copies of the whole hard drive to another of the same model so I can always go back if the recovey doesn't work. I have tried the following:

1. make testdisk write a partition table of a ...

If you check that partition, you can use your left or right arrow key to set it to P for primary.


Ok. I'll try this. I got another Hard Drive that is exactly the same as mine. I dd'ed my "damaged" to it so I could try this while leaving the originally damaged intact. I left it at the lab ...

The data is still there, I could keep playing the songs for example (and it was not just the buffer, I could change songs), it's only the partition table that is gone (and the first 206MB of data that I overwrote).

Are you able to list your files?


What I meant was that when I dd'ed over the ...

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by accident I used dd to write over the first 208MB of my external disk. The whole disk is 320GB and should be a single ext4 partition. However, it's all gone now, there's a 208MB parttion at the start and the rest shows up as free space. The data is still there, I could keep playing the songs ...