From: phil at domain techworks.ie
Date: Thu 13 Jun 2002 - 11:43:48 IST
Hi Just a quick update:
First of all, thanks for all the replies!
My first partition /dev/hda1 is actually my win2k partition which I keep around for things that I just can't run on linux (like the Ericsson T68 sync software). So if the start of that is trashed, I don't really care, as it is FAT32, so I can read it.
I am using gpart at the moment to scan the disk, and it has found 2 partitins so far. This is a 48G disk so it is taking a while.
Once I have succeeded though, I'll put a bit up on the web about it. It is always useful.
Phil
Original Message:
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From: Conor Daly conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:47:56 +0100
To: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Agh! Help!
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:22:49AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Philip Trickett thought:
> Hi,
>
> Would anyone have any suggestions for the following:
> A user, not really in an awake mode, was trying to create a new network
> boot floppy for the installation of RedHat 7.3 over a network. The
> command used was:
> dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/hda
> Now, you can see the problem, as the first 1.44 mb of the hard disk was
> overwritten by the install floppy image, and the computer just does
> exactly as the install image would do when it is booted.
>
> It looks as if it took the partition tables with it as well when this
> happened as fdisk cannot see any partitions.
>
> Would anyone have any suggestions? As there was some stuff on the
> machine which was quite useful.
If you know the *exact* partition boundaries and types, you _may_ be able
to just remake them using fdisk (do NOT! mke2fs them after or you'll
definately lose them!). If the first partition is something easy (eg
/boot), you might get all your data back from other partitions but you're
not likely to get /dev/hda1 back (IMO that is...)
Conor
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