Accidental PXE Installation

[Gavin McDonald]

Sounds like it's gone.  Have you checked to see if it exists through fdisk
and the like?  if the partition has been overwritten, then there is no hope
of getting the data back easily.  And the kickstart file probably spec'd the
disk layout as 'wipe everything & format for RedHat'.

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rik Herrin
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 3:18 AM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Accidental PXE Installation
> 
> Hi,
>   I have a friend running Windows XP and who wanted to
> install Red Hat Enterprise Linux to try it out.  His
> network card is PXE enabled and there was a kickstart
> server configured in the network (which he didn't know
> about).  So he accidently rebooted the machine and the
> PXE network card installed RHEL (note:  He wanted to
> do this manually but wasn't aware of the kickstart
> server!!!).  Now his NTFS partition and data is gone.
> Is it completely gone or is there any way to recover
> his data?  Thanks for your time.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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