Conclusion- failure
Tried- Seagate File Recovery (try before you buy) and it said the drive should be sent in to their lab$$$.
On the good side- there were backups of everything except some critical DVDs that I'll have to copy back to the new hard drive.
I once read, "Linux assumes you know what ...
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- 13 Feb 2014, 22:24
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Wiped out my harddrive using dd
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- 12 Feb 2014, 18:52
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Wiped out my harddrive using dd
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Re: Wiped out my harddrive using dd
Update-
No solution.
Tried Testdisk but it solved nothing.
I'm not a computer expert so the command line stuff is very formidable and confusing.
I surely wish someone had written and easy to follow guide on how to solve this sort of problem for dopes like me. Yes, I did follow the "step-by-step ...
No solution.
Tried Testdisk but it solved nothing.
I'm not a computer expert so the command line stuff is very formidable and confusing.
I surely wish someone had written and easy to follow guide on how to solve this sort of problem for dopes like me. Yes, I did follow the "step-by-step ...
- 12 Feb 2014, 04:43
- Forum: Partition Recovery
- Topic: Wiped out my harddrive using dd
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1707
Wiped out my harddrive using dd
I just used dd to make an image of a 16g flash drive (sdb) to my big external hard drive (sdc) and wiped out over 350g of data on sdc.
The command I used was dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror
sdb was only 16g from a flash drive.
I use the terms "wiped" out as I don't know ...
The command I used was dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror
sdb was only 16g from a flash drive.
I use the terms "wiped" out as I don't know ...