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Asked: 2010-01-23 19:53:51 +0800 CST

Accidentally overwrote first 400MB of hard drive with ext3 partition - possible to rescue?

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Accidentally wrote /dev/zero to the first 371MB of a 500GB disk. Is it possible to rebuild the partition table and/or recover what data hasn't been overwritten?

hard-drive ext3 data-recovery partition-table

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  1. try TestDisk, this is pretty much the only tool that can save something off ext3

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