shaney wrote:Note I am using "gpart", NOT gparted. The tutorial I read suggests that amongst other things gpart is for rescuing just such a situation.
shaney wrote:I downloaded the live DVD iso and dumped it on to a USB stick using DD.
All the is left is a 1.46GB partition, presumably containing this Mageia image?
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/somemountpoint/backups/brokendrive.img bs=2M
jkerr82508 wrote:The logical explanation is that you dumped the image on the hard drive instead of the USB stick. 1.4GB is about the size of the live DVD's.
I would have suggested TestDisk, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk, but you say that it didn't work out for you. Good luck with gpart.
Jim
sudo dd if=Mageia-3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb
shaney wrote:Both commands very definitely pointed to the USB stick.
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sudo dd if=Mageia-3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb
The hard drive is sda.
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