On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:05:59PM -0600, Carl Zeilon wrote:
> I have a 80gb hard drive partitioned in NTFS that I use for data
> backup. Just one large partition, no OS. Through a comedy of errors
> (not so funny at the moment) fdisk /mbr was run on the drive from a W98
> diskette. Now XP can't read it & wants to format. Knoppix does not see
> the drive either. How do I get my data back? This doesn't seem like it
> would be too difficult. I just can't make another booboo at this point.
0. "fdisk /mbr" cleans the Master Boot Record, not the partition
table. Something else messed it up.
1. Get a bigger disk and dump the image of this sick puppy onto it to
prevent further damage:
dd if=/dev/$whatever bs=1M | gzip > disk_img.dd.gz
If you don't have another disk that you can plug/unplug around, use
netcat:
On a spare computer:
netcat -p 12345 -l > disk_img.dd.gz
On computer with bad disk:
dd if=/dev/$whatever bs=1M | gzip | netcat -p 12345 -h $other_one
I haven't done this in a while so you might want to test first by
sending a known file then comparing it on the receiving end.
2. Go get a cup of coffee. From Starbucks. It will be a while.
3. What does "fdisk -l /dev/$whatever" say under Knoppix?
florin
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