Thanks Andrew, I bought a new 500GB hdd and found an old PIII machine to run some tests with ddrescue (in order to image the screwed hdd) I have used photorec in the past (under windows) with great success. I hope to save our photos.
Thanks for your response !!! On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:34 PM, andrew zajac <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Theodoris. > > I think you know this, but what you did was not very smart! You wrote your > sda1 partition over your sda2 partition. That screwed up the filesystem > there. You probably can recover a lot of your data using file carving since > three seconds probably did not do dammage to the actual data, just the > filesystem metadata. > > Use photorec to recover the data. Boot a live cd with photorec (like > ubuntu-rescue-remix) and obtain another drive onto which you will put the > recovered files. Create a folder and cd into it. Create another folder > called "recovery". Then run > sudo photorec /dev/sda2 > (make sure sda2 is the correct device) > Follow the prompts to tell it to use the sda2 partition and recover the > data to the "recovery" directory that you just created. Make it go and it > will search the partition for files that it can carve out without using the > file system. > > Good Luck! > > See this page for more details: > http://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery > > > Andrew Zajac > > --- On *Tue, 1/27/09, Thodoris Charalabidis <[email protected]>* wrote: > > From: Thodoris Charalabidis <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] I screwed up my gf's PC... please advice > To: [email protected] > Received: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 2:27 AM > > Hello there ... This is my first post on this list. Sorry for the long > mail. Please advice me if you think you can help me !!! > > I was trying to help a friend of mine recover files from his failing HDD > (over the phone), and I heard about ddrescue ... > so I said to first try to learn the syntax of it.... on my girlfriend's pc > :-( > > So I booted from a live cd and I thought to give ddrescue a try... before > helping my friend > > I did a "fdisk -l" and it showed me her 1 physical hdd, splitted into 2 > partitions (the pc has Windows XP) > > something like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 . The /dev/sda1 was C (windows, 17 > GB) and /dev/sda2 was a DATA partition (no OS, 90 GB) > > And then I did a > ddrescue /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 logfilename.log .... for 3 seconds. Just to > see if I would get an error ... Only for 3 seconds !!! Then I canceled it > (Ctrl-C) > > After that I try to find more online examples and I found somewhere that > you do that only if the second part of the syntax (/dev/sda2 in my case) is > completly EMPTY. Mine wasn't. > So I reboot from the live cd. And boot into Windows. I got a nice blue > screen (not a BSOD) stating that my hdd needs to be checked and things like > that. I go "Oh Nooooo". > And it started deleting some "orphaned" files, repairing the indexes...etc > etc. > > After 30 minutes it boots in windows. I browse the 2nd partition. No > problem. I could see all the directories. But I then saw that partition D > (the /dev/sda2) was not 90 GB but 17 GB. And that 80% of all the PHOTOS she > had from our trips and holidays was 0 kb, and I could not open them. > > Can you please advice me what to do in order to recover our photos (and > maybe the rest of the files) and get the capacity of the partition back ??? > > Theodoros (sorry for my english... I am from Greece) > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > > > ------------------------------ > Now with a new friend-happy design! Try the new *Yahoo! Canada > Messenger*<http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/> >
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