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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name.

For one of my installs, I accidentally overwrote my 1TB HDD. A few minutes ago I wanted to put back some files... and all I saw was a distro.

It confused me because I was not sure if I was on my solid state drive or the HDD.

So, those files are gone. A lot is gone. Nothing too precious, I think... It might be a tremendous fuck up.

See kids, this is why you back up. Off the computer. Oh well.

EDIT: Recovering files using Photorec. Everyone who recommended this to me is a hero. Also a hero is the person who recommended FTK, but I was too eager to use something now than to sign up to download. I still should though...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds like you need to learn about disk forensics before you go any further. Check out FTK

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hah, I don't think I illustrated how dumb I am. I deleted the partitions already.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless it was encrypted, it prob doesn’t matter. The partition table is just the road map that points to the houses (files). A tool like FTK or PhotoRec goes byte by byte to find the files and figure out what they are. You won’t have file names, but the data might still be there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I got it running now! I did not have that much to recovery, so everything will fit in home. Mostly word files, PDFs, and pictures. Few movies and music.

[–] static_dragon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I’ve nuked partitions in the past before, and was able to recover using photorec, when doing it, just make sure you don’t save the files to the drive you’re running recovery on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good tip! I... would maybe have realized that would worsen the situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, all of us have done things because we didn’t know better. The only dumb thing to do here is to not learn how to fix this. Try and fail, so next time you know how it works and can do better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! This is just my way of laughing at the situation. I am definitely learning some new skills like data recovery and critical thinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can still recover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I shall try!!