VanLUG Email Archive
Kevin Lindsay (klindsay@mkintraweb.com)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:41:36 -0700 (PDT)
Basically you blew away the partition table of the drive. There are some
utilities that can rebuild the partition table from an existing filesystem
on your drive, but I'm not sure if the drive has to be mounted or not.
I've searched endlessly for the lat 45 minutes but couldn't find the
utility that I used only a few months ago when the same thing happened to
a friend. *ugh*, but there is about 4-5 utilities that try to remedy this
problem. Hopefully this sheads some hope... :)
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Sean Ellis wrote:
> Ahoy,
>
> A terrible thing has happened. Playing footloose and fancy free with dd
> I've overwritten the first 512 bytes on /dev/hdb, which is now
> inaccessible.
>
> If anyone can point me toward a remedy for this I'd appreciate it,
> although I'm beginning to think that the whole drive will require
> rebuilding from scratch,
>
> gracias,
> Sean
>
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