Using Startup Disk Creator destroyed my disk partition!
GAAAAA!! HELP!!! I was trying to use Startup Disk Creator to create a boot partition on a drive that already had data on it.
I had a NTFS partition on a USB drive which I then shrunk by 1GB and and moved to the end of the disk using gparted. This worked fine. I did this because under Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04, it wouldn't allow me to click on the Make Startup Disk button, so I figured it required an empty partition. So by creating the 1GB partition, I figured I could click on the Erase Disk and it would be fine the 1GB, I WAS SO WRONG!!! It started to wipe the ENTIRE drive and I yanked the USB connector when I reaslised this.
I am hoping that it has not actually wiped the data, but just killed the partition table. My question now is, how do I recover from this? The drive is half a TB and I don't have a backup (it was the only disk I had :-( and I didn't plan for this contingency :-O)
Is there some way to fix this situation?
THANX!
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