[mdlug] Recover data from zeroed drive

Carl T. Miller carl at carltm.com
Thu Dec 12 09:08:50 EST 2013


Robert Citek wrote:
> 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

I'm not aware of any program that will fix this, and the
pros who do this type of work are expensive.  If I were
in your shoes I'd start restoring from the most recent
backup.

c




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