I'm going to leave the data recovery responses to people who have done it more than I have, but I'd say a good rule is to not wipe anything until you have a backup of the other partition or have removed any drives that are not being wiped
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]>wrote: > As you may know, the mbr was corrupted on my friends presario, but it has > files that he wants to save/keep. > > My friend decided to run dban on his presarijo to wipe one of the sata > drives. (It has two) > > I told him not to do anything until I get back. (can you say dumb ass?) > > So dban started to wipe both drives, and when he realized it he shut it > down right away. > > Now he still wants to recover his files. > > Can the files be found even though he wiped the beginning of the file > sysems, or the root of the filesystems? > > Is there a program that can find the files that are on the disks? > > Are there programs that can recognize pictures and other types of files, as > opposed to system files? > > ------------------------------ > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. Check it > out.<http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
