Hi all, I wanted to create a live install media from by flash drive using dd. Following is the command I used, sudo dd bs=4M if=Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-1.iso of=/dev/sdc1 The sad part is /dev/sdc1 happened to be my external hard disk (I wanted to write the image to my flash disk), this was by mistake. Now I cannot access files in my external hard disk. My hard disk is 1TB and had only one partition. With this dd now it has two partitions (sdc1 and sdc2), following are the outputs of trying to mount them, $ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 abc/ mount: mount /dev/sdc1 on /tmp/abc failed: Structure needs cleaning $ sudo mount /dev/sdc2 abc/ mount: /dev/sdc2 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. I googled for the issue and read that it is hard to recover. Have any of you experienced a similar situation and recovered? Any help/clue to get the hard disk recovered is highly appreciated. -- Best Regards, Kalpa Welivitigoda +94776509215 http://about.me/callkalpa