I was editing my disk and when i wrote the changes and exited cfdisk, no cli command worked. Thats when i realized that im f-ed up.

So is it possible to recover my machine now?

:_ )

  • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If there’s something really important on that disk, don’t do ANYTHING, just unplug it and hand it over to a data recovery company.

    If there isn’t anything really important on there, go ahead and try and do it yourself.

    Paying $100 to a data recovery company can save you a ton of headaches if it has the only copy of your thesis on there and you mess it up trying to fix things yourself.

    • steersman2484@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      If you create an image of the disk in the current state from a live boot or an other machine. You can try fixing it without having to risk making things worse

    • survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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      7 months ago

      Where is data recovery $100? In my country, data recovery is like $1000 USD to look at your drive, and then they tell you how much they can recover and a full quote.

      • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Depends on what they actually need to do. When it’s a drive that’s working and they just have to image it and run some recovery software it should be pretty cheap.

        Clean room repair of dead hard disks is a different story.