Accidentily turned a 3TB drive into a 3GB live thumb drive.
Posted: 28 Jul 2017, 21:22
Hi
I have a 3TB HDD which had the ext4 file system on the whole thing. I accidentally managed to select it to create a live USB drive so now it has lost the ext4 file system and thinks it now has only a 3gb FAT partition on they system. I'm hoping there is a way I can get rid of the fat partition and to get the remaining ext4 partition back as I don't have a spare drive to copy the files over to.
I'm not sure how to do this however as the ext4 partition is only found when I do a search under no partitioned media, which then doesn't give me the option to write. When I do the search under "Intel" partition it only finds the FAT partitions I want to get rid of.
I've had a look under the documentation and else where and I can't find how to recover the data.
I'm posting as I don't want to FUBAR my drive completely.
I have a 3TB HDD which had the ext4 file system on the whole thing. I accidentally managed to select it to create a live USB drive so now it has lost the ext4 file system and thinks it now has only a 3gb FAT partition on they system. I'm hoping there is a way I can get rid of the fat partition and to get the remaining ext4 partition back as I don't have a spare drive to copy the files over to.
I'm not sure how to do this however as the ext4 partition is only found when I do a search under no partitioned media, which then doesn't give me the option to write. When I do the search under "Intel" partition it only finds the FAT partitions I want to get rid of.
I've had a look under the documentation and else where and I can't find how to recover the data.
I'm posting as I don't want to FUBAR my drive completely.