Trashed OS?

[hoopyfrood]

So I was creating a bootable USB stick with Unetbootin and accidentally selected my hard drive instead of the flash drive. My system is still running but I'm pretty sure I hosed it and it's not going to boot again if I restart. When I run cfdisk on my boot drive it says "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive". When I run cfdisk without a drive specification it says "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder". I think this problem is probably not specific to OpenSUSE but I figured this is as good a place to start as any. Open to suggestions. What should I do?

[Irithori]

Attach a usb drive,
mount a cifs/nfs/whatever.


Then copy all your data.
The system is not important, it can be reinstalled.
Data is.

[Jonathan183]

I once installed to a hard drive partition instead of a USB pen drive with unetbootin ... the system still booted, it just dumped all the CD information in the root partition. If you can - backup data as already suggested ... did you repartition the drive or just select an existing partition to install to?

[hoopyfrood]

true. i suppose if the partition tables are trashed I could lose the home partition if I restart..maybe I should have a UPS.
or not accidentally click on the wrong buttons.

[kapilv]

true. i suppose if the partition tables are trashed I could lose the home partition if I restart..maybe I should have a UPS.
or not accidentally click on the wrong buttons.

hi ! i also have faced much similar kind of situation but at that time i was lucky or something else that i did not loose my partitions table just what i lost only a single partition on which i had some important data. that error also was done by me while i was installing linux in hurry that i press the wrong button and disaster happened.