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- ylanse
Hey
I think I have errounsly made my Windows filesystem vfat and I want to revert that.
First, what happend:
I have a Windows laptop that I want to convert to a dual-boot system. To test things out, I was playing around booted from an Ubuntu 9.04 alpha Live CD. I also recently acquired an Openmoko Freerunner and wanted to put hackable:1 as operating system on it's micro-SD card.So I had the micro-SD card connected to the laptop via an USB card reader. Ubuntu had mounted the card reader to device /dev/sdc1. Following this tutorial I unmounted the device, started fdisk, created an 8M partition of type vfat on the micro-SD card and a second partition of type ext2.
Then I needed to format the SD card and, blindingly following the tutorial, I typed
Code:
# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
However, my SD card was on /dev/sdc1, /dev/sda1 is my Windows hard drive. A second to late I realised my mistake and exited Ubuntu, removed the Live Cd and rebooted.
The laptop didn't even want to boot up and displayed the message: "This is not a bootable device please insert a floppy disk"
Is there any way to rescue/retrieve the data on my hard drive?
thanks in advance!
- rson0
get a mac
- marychain0
*head explodes
- Nairn0
Oh my, you did what now?
It's been a while since I last fretted about drive recovery, but I have a sneaking suspicion you've either a) wholly fucked up your old data to the point where it's completely gone, or b) wholly fucked up your old data to the point where you'll need to pay someone a small fortune to recover it.
If we were talking HDs, I'd suspect your data would still be on there - as we're talking about chipMem, I'd suspect not.
Email the manufacturer.