[syslinux] Used mkdiskimage script on wrong drive!

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ryan McLean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It all depends on how fragmented the drive was, as HPA has said you have 
> erased 250mb of data but that could be as little as 512bytes of a file 
> which would corrupt the rest of the file, the more fragmented your HDD 
> then the more files will have been corrupted. Generally speaking the 
> only types of file that would be recoverable in any sort of condition 
> after losing sections are non-binary files, of course this is assuming 
> that the headers of those files are intact. If the commerical recovery 
> programs cant recover the files then it is unlikely that you will get 
> any further.
> 
> If there is vital data on the disk then you could always send it to a 
> company specialising in data recovery.
> 

Perhaps more importantly... it's very likely the beginning of the disk 
contained most of the metadata, i.e. the file structure itself, as 
opposed to the file data.

	-hpa