[mdlug] Recover data from zeroed drive
Robert Citek
robert.citek at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 09:05:00 EST 2013
Hello all,
A client recently zeroed their drive with this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
when they meant to do this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
That last letter turned out to be a subtle, but important, difference.
Any recommendations of tools for recovering the data from the drive?
The Googles are telling me that recovery is not impossible, just
extremely unlikely:
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13674/is-it-possible-to-recover-data-on-a-zeroed-hard-drive
P.S. they have backups, but it would be nice to recover data since the
last backup.
Regards,
- Robert
More information about the mdlug
mailing list