this could mean my job...

[geeksRus]

ok...no BS...i fdisked the wrong drive. please, someone tell me i can undo this somehow? :sad:

[WebHead]

If you do a search in Yahoo or Google for "data recovery from fdisk" or something related,.. there does seem to be software out there that might be able to help. Worth a shot I guess. Good luck with that one. :)

[Radical Dreamer]

I have a free program called PC Inspector that does pretty damn good, slave the drive in another machine and run it. You can find it all over the web, version 4 is free I think 5 is a pay version. If you cant find it lemme know and i can email it or something

[geeksRus]

thanx guys...what i did was delete the primary partition. i found THIS (http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html) and it looks promising. i have PC Inspector but it duzn't restore the partition. in fact i just used it to recover about 11,000 doc files and images for a friend, a truly good program. i used to be good at this (no...really). but with this new job and new boss my confidence is shot to hell. i'm making mistakes i havnt made in years.

[DocPC]

Getdataback. www.runtime.org.

[Stalemate]

So how did it finally end, geeksRus?

[ScorpioIlya]

My friend did the same thing.... let me guess, the drive is seen as RAW in windows..........

download Bootmaster......do a search for it...make a bootable floppy...and it should find the partition info RIGHT AWAY....and just tell it to re-write the MBR, and then mount the volume..........since you didn't move any files..all you're doing is re-writing the index.........should work just fine.

[arch0nmyc0n]

The senior tech at a place I was working accidently did that once... luckily he did it within windows and had a second hard drive attached for testing at the time... so we were luck enough to copy all of it before rebooting... we would have lost everything. Years of archive drivers, program updates, fixes, docs... etc... we woulda had to start all over again as our boss was too cheap to backup our stuff because it wasn't as important as his porn he wanted to back up...

[Diver01]

I hope it all worked out for you... Give us an upate when you can... :)

[geeksRus]

This Utility (http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html) worked perfectly...one or two keypresses and the partition was back!!! no fuss...no muss...just reboot. definately one to keep in the toolbox. be sure if you try it that you READ THE DOCS! a great find for me. thanx all.

[Seeny]

glad to hear you got it back and thanks for the link you can be sure that I?l dl that just in case.

[Diver01]

glad to hear you got it back and thanks for the link you can be sure that I?l dl that just in case.

Glad to hear everything worked out.

[Stalemate]

I've used this guy's password recovery tools before and they saved my gluteous maximus more than once.

I didn't even know he had such a utility available!

Glad to hear things worked out for you.


So now when you tell your boss about all this, he will be impressed at how you reacted under stress and how well you managed the entire situation to its successful end. http://forums.windrivers.com/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

[geeksRus]

I've used this guy's password recovery tools before and they saved my gluteous maximus more than once.

I didn't even know he had such a utility available!

Glad to hear things worked out for you.


So now when you tell your boss about all this, he will be impressed at how you reacted under stress and how well you managed the entire situation to its successful end. http://forums.windrivers.com/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

so i don't mention the soiling myself thing then?

[Stalemate]

Humm. No.

Save that for the Christmas office party next year. http://forums.windrivers.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif