On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +0000, mark ryan wrote: > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my external drive with the iso on it, and > other files. I am now unable to mount that drive. What, if anything, can I > do to recover that drive?
The data on the drive are gone. Do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=10000 to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/13102013105700.822ab27dc...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
