[SOLVED] Hard Drive Restoration Tools

errigour · 06-09-2014, 02:51 AM

Hey I think I wiped an important part of my hard drive
with assembly language. There aren't any partitions and
the output of fdisk -l is:

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table

I was hoping there would be a way to simply fix the boot sector and restore the lost partitions.

syg00 · 06-09-2014, 03:18 AM

As is constantly pointed out, you may think it's urgent, but it ain't to the rest of us.

How much fun did you have - was it just the first sector you trashed, or more ?. How many more ?.
What partition structure was it using - MBR or gpt ?.
How good are your backups ?. I think I know the answer to this one.

If MBR and only the first one/few sector(s), then testdisk is probably your saviour. As for the boot-loader, simply fix it by re-installing after fixing the partitions - from a chroot or liveCD.

errigour · 06-09-2014, 03:54 AM

Thank you very much I think test disk will fix the problem.