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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 58 points 1 year ago

THANK YOU EVERYONE who recommended PHOTOREC! This community is fantastic.

[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You might be able to rebuild your partitions with testdisk, too. Work from a backup.

[-] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Neat. I will try that once photorec finishes its search in like a month from now.

this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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