Recover 3TB HDD which was overwritten with 32MB Image
Posted: 19 Mar 2018, 15:42
Hello,
yesterday evening I made a big misstake. I tried to clone an 32!!MB!! CF Card with Linux on it and wrote the Imagefile to my HDD (3TB). Only 2TB was used, 'coz my board doesn't support UEFI Boot.
Now my HDD is unoformated except of 32MB Linux partition. For recovery I downloaded gparted liveCD for restoring.
But I'm unsure how to recover. Should I use "testdisk" and try to restore my partition table or "photorec" to restore my files? Which is the best way?
Thanks for your advice!
Regards
Chris
yesterday evening I made a big misstake. I tried to clone an 32!!MB!! CF Card with Linux on it and wrote the Imagefile to my HDD (3TB). Only 2TB was used, 'coz my board doesn't support UEFI Boot.
Now my HDD is unoformated except of 32MB Linux partition. For recovery I downloaded gparted liveCD for restoring.
But I'm unsure how to recover. Should I use "testdisk" and try to restore my partition table or "photorec" to restore my files? Which is the best way?
Thanks for your advice!
Regards
Chris