Re: How to restore my disk

[Barry Jackson]

On 03/10/10 13:29, Tom Davies wrote:

> I have a feeling that you are just in a typical case of needing to only
> reinstall grub2 and let it find the Operating Systems itself without forcing it
> into doing anything too complicated and unlikely.
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> Tom :)
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Hi Tom,
I see where you are coming from, but sadly - no.
The command he gave was a direct write to the hard drive first 512 bytes 
which overwrote the MBR and partition table. There is no way that 
anything on a live CD will be able to mount it, let alone read it, other 
than maybe sophisticated disk recovery software. If he had a copy of the 
original 512 bytes then it would be an easy job to replace them, but I 
fear that the only copy he had is somewhere on the drive in question. :-(

On another point - your email client is breaking threading on the ML 
such that every post you make creates a new thread, rather than 
continuing it. I have seen this before in other lists with some specific 
clients. Just thought you should know.

Barry.