http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/07/07/how-to-really-mess-up-a-hard-drive-then-fix-it en-us 40 Max Dunn's Personal Blog <p>Yesterday, I almost lost everything on my hard disk &#8211; very scary. I was playing around with <a href="Ubuntu">Ubuntu 6.06</a> and it ran well from the CD, so I let it install itself to the hard disk. I knew that it was going to partition the disk and add a boot loader, but I figured that the worse thing that could happen was that I would have a boot menu and be able to select to boot from Windows each time. Wrong. I almost lost all my data, but in the end, was able to restore the original partition information. Here is my tale and how I recovered.</p> Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:05:00 -0700 urn:uuid:4bc3edf4-ce74-4f93-98c5-3a1b3b79e437 Max Dunn http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/07/07/how-to-really-mess-up-a-hard-drive-then-fix-it Tech Tips