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I knew i could always reformat the 500 GB drive, but i am now running
photorec (6 hours remaining, yea!) and putting the results on a spare
USB hard drive. So is there a way, using something like mk2fs, to
create/reset the partition to the full 500 GB but have the new
partition keep whatever data was on there before? thanks ~ Mike [email protected] wrote: Send Bug-ddrescue mailing list submissions to [email protected]To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bug-ddrescue digest..." Today's Topics: 1. oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive (Michael Mullen) 2. Re: oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive (David Liana) 3. Re: oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive (andrew zajac) 4. Re: oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive (David Favro) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:18:53 -0500 From: Michael Mullen <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 17:17:10 +0000 (UTC) From: David Liana <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive To: [email protected] Message-ID: <1173533666.1802371242753430673.javamail.r...@cl05-host02.roch.ny.frontiernet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Unless I'm completely missing something, you will never be able to fully get back your data on /dev/sdb1, since you over wrote it with the contents of /dev/sdc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Mullen" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:18:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive 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 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:00:02 -0700 (PDT) From: andrew zajac <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive To: [email protected], Michael Mullen <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Was there anything useful on that partition before your "Oops"? Because the filesystem that was once there is not recoverable. However, you may be able to use file-carving to recover some files from what you currently have. You only overwrote 40 gigs out of a possible 500 gigs. Look into Photorec or Foremost to recover your data. If the problem is that you just want to be able to "see" the other 460 Gigs that was once there, reformat the partition. You currently have a 500 gig partition with a 40 gig filesystem on it. That's why it only appears as a 40 gig drive. Good luck! Andrew --- On Tue, 5/19/09, Michael Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: From: Michael Mullen <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:18 PM 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 __________________________________________________________________ Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-ddrescue/attachments/20090519/05a37895/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:03:37 -0400 From: David Favro <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] oops, i recovered right over my good hard drive To: Michael Mullen <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: |
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