Hello Theodoris.
I think you know this, but what you did was not
very smart! You wrote your sda1 partition over your sda2 partition.
That screwed up the filesystem there. You probably can recover a lot
of your data using file carving since three seconds probably did not do
dammage to the actual data, just the filesystem metadata.
Use
photorec to recover the data. Boot a live cd with photorec (like
ubuntu-rescue-remix) and obtain another drive onto which you will put
the recovered files. Create a folder and cd into it. Create another
folder called "recovery". Then run
sudo photorec /dev/sda2
(make sure sda2 is the correct device)
Follow
the prompts to tell it to use the sda2 partition and recover the data
to the "recovery" directory that you just created. Make it go and it
will search the partition for files that it can carve out without using
the file system.
Good Luck!
See this page for more details:
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
Andrew Zajac
--- On Tue, 1/27/09, Thodoris Charalabidis <address@hidden> wrote:
From: Thodoris Charalabidis <address@hidden>
Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] I screwed up my gf's PC... please advice
To: address@hidden
Received: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 2:27 AM
Hello there ... This is my first post on this list. Sorry for the long mail. Please advice me if you think you can help me !!!
I was trying to help a friend of mine recover files from his failing HDD (over the phone), and I heard about ddrescue ...
so I said to first try to learn the syntax of it.... on my girlfriend's pc :-(
So I booted from a live cd and I thought to give ddrescue a try... before helping my friend
I did a "fdisk -l" and it showed me her 1 physical hdd, splitted into 2 partitions (the pc has Windows XP)
something like /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 . The /dev/sda1 was C (windows, 17 GB) and /dev/sda2 was a DATA partition (no OS, 90 GB)
And then I did a
ddrescue
/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 logfilename.log .... for 3 seconds. Just to see
if I would get an error ... Only for 3 seconds !!! Then I canceled it
(Ctrl-C)
After that I try to find more online examples and I found somewhere
that you do that only if the second part of the syntax (/dev/sda2 in my
case) is completly EMPTY. Mine wasn't.
So I reboot from the live cd.
And boot into Windows. I got a nice blue screen (not a BSOD) stating
that my hdd needs to be checked and things like that. I go "Oh Nooooo".
And it started deleting some "orphaned" files, repairing the indexes...etc etc.
After
30 minutes it boots in windows. I browse the 2nd partition. No problem.
I could see all the directories. But I then saw that partition D (the
/dev/sda2) was not 90 GB but 17 GB. And that 80% of all the PHOTOS she
had from our trips and holidays was 0 kb, and I could not open them.
Can you please advice me what to do in order to recover our photos
(and maybe the rest of the files) and get the capacity of the partition
back ???
Theodoros (sorry for my english... I am from Greece)
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