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Hi Fiona

I tried recovering all my files but I ran out of space on my spare 8Gb USB stick I have with me on holiday here with me..

I'm in need of getting that partition back really for the data but in original named files, as hunting through these recup.dir.xxx will take me for the rest of the ...

Hi Fiona

By being tired and trying to wipe away a partition on a USB Stick to put an operating system on that, I inadvertently ran dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=16
and not what I wanted to run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1M count=16

By which time when I re-did the command I'd wiped ...

Hi Fiona

Last Image file of lost OS partition files :-/

Kind Regds

Dre

Hi Fiona

I hope this helps ?

Kind Regds

Dre

Hi Fiona

I'm doing the deep search again in terminal window that I can copy and paste the contents to a Jpeg or GIF ..

Kind regds

Dre

A merry Xmas to you too

I have the log now... It's pretty large at 7.4 Mb so pasting it is not really workable ...

Plus the BB does not like upoads with extension like log or txt

What do you suggest ?

I get this after doing the deeper search in testdisk ..

Disk /dev/sda - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30402 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 28845 254 63 463410927 [OS]
>D HPFS - NTFS 28846 0 1 30400 254 62 24981074
D HPFS - NTFS 28846 3 22 30401 10 9 24981504 [HP_RECOVERY ...

I accidentally wiped my /dev/sda device which was my Windows Vista partiton..

Luckily I still have access to my debian partition to run testdisk and see if I can recover my lost files and partitions.

So far looking through some of testdisk funnctions I noticed both my MFT and MFT backups were ...