I was mistakenly copied an iso into my external hard drive! # dd if=iso.iso of=/dev/sdb oflag=direct bs=1M ^C83+0 records in 82+0 records out 85983232 bytes (86 MB) copied, 2.34214 s, 36.7 MB/s It's not finished though. Hurriedly pressed ctrl+c to stop it. I could still play videos in my external hard drive but I'm worried. Is it okay? Or not? What should I do? A clip of fdisk -l output: Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 238475 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x127a3aba Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 0 6047743 3023872 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS Sorry for my bad english.

I was mistakenly copied an iso into my external hard drive! # dd if=iso.iso of=/dev/sdb oflag=direct bs=1M ^C83+0 records in 82+0 records out 85983232 bytes (86 MB) copied, 2.34214 s, 36.7 MB/s It's not finished though. Hurriedly pressed ctrl+c to stop it. I could still play videos in my external hard drive but I'm worried. Is it okay? Or not? What should I do? A clip of fdisk -l output: Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 238475 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x127a3aba Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 0 6047743 3023872 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS Sorry for my bad english.