LinuxQuestions.org - Data recovery on External HD after wrong use of dd

As the title says, I specified the wrong out file while using the dd command to write a .img to what I thought was my thumb drive. Browsing the hard drive shows the liveOS folder but no longer any of the previous folders.

I used PhotoRec to see if I could recover the files and it was able to recover files. So the files are still there. Is there a way to get these files without having to wait for PhotoRec to work on the 500GB drive, since this will take a while.

running

Code:

fdisk -l

referring to the appropriate drive

Code:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 476940 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x26aae55b



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1  *          1        754      772096  17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS



Disk /dev/sdb1: 790 MB, 790626304 bytes

64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 754 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x26aae55b



    Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1p1  *          1        754      772096  17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

I hope this makes sense and thanks for the help.