Hi Michael, You're not completely clear on whether you're trying to recover the *data* that was on /dev/sdb, or just get back a blank 500GB partition.
The latter is easy, just format a blank filesystem, e.g. using "mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1". (I assume you didn't overwrite the partition table since the command-line you quoted would not do so.) The former is more difficult, and as already has been noted, you probably won't recover 100% of what was there. I would use a tool such as photorec to retrieve the files. Photorec is my preferred tool, but you could also try scalpel and perhaps some others. Good luck, David Michael Mullen wrote: > In desparation, i used ddrescue (successfully!) to save a failed hard > drive. Unfortunately, i didn't read the instructions carefully enough. > The failing HD is 40 GB (/dev/sdc) > I decided to put the rescued data on 500 GB misc. drive (/dev/sdb) > > stupidly, i typed: > ddrescue -n /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1 > Instead of creating an image, like i intended, I just overwrote the > entire partition on sdb1! I got the rescued data off that i needed, > now i need to > get /dev/sdb1 back because now all the system sees is a 40GB > partition. Any ideas? > thanks _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
