Im such an idiot.. I need big help!

Typhuse · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 13

Mmmk...

Story:
I wanted to copy an archive over to my windows partition(hda2). So, I type "cp /home/jonny/MMPack.tar.gz /dev/hda2". I now realize that I overwrote the device and I can't dual boot windows.

Any help will greatly appreciated.

John5788 · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:30 am Post subject:

u were supposed to mount the partition like so:

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows

you can't write to an ntfs partition, so if you have that, then you're out of luck.
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rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

Hi,

you're doomed ... (... to reinstall Windows, or to consult a data rescueing company).

- rojaro -
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Typhuse · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 13

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're not serious are you?!
OMFG! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Will a recovery drive help? Like HP_RECOVERY Built-In most HP machines?

bollucks · l33t Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 606

This is why you do as little as possible as root user. You couldn't have done that as a normal user. You will need professional data recovery to get the maximum amount of data back, but depending on how big that file was that you copied over, you have lost a certain amount of data.

Typhuse · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 13

ahhhhh im getting win xp prof today(saturday) so it doesnt matter i had to much junk on there like pre built malware and adware that came prebuilt with PC i have to redo linux also so its not going to hurt like an OS weekend

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

Hi,

ElSean · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 63

I figure this is generally the same topic so I'm posting it here instead of a new topic.

If I mount my ntfs(hdb) to /mnt/ntfs. Then accidently copying something to /mnt/ntfs wouldn't do anything, to mess it up I'd have to do a copy to /dev/hdb correct? Unless of course the drive was mounted, but in that case I can't write cause ntfs isn't writable.