On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +0000, mark ryan wrote: > > > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my external drive with the iso on it, and > > other files. I am now unable to mount that drive. What, if anything, can > I > > do to recover that drive? > > The data on the drive are gone. Do > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=10000 > > to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch. > > Thanks Brian, but I can just fdisk and mkfs this one. It is an external drive that is only used for file storage. I may try scapel, but I'll probably just reformat and restore when I get home.
