NOTHING. I will translate: EITHER your friend used dd wrongly OR the whatever he dd'ed was all 00's OR an unknown error happpened OR your actual disk is all 00's. I don't really want to somehow take advantage of your misfortune till now, BUT if you quickly review this thread you will see how it goes like this: saman0suke: I need help and advice for .... jaclaz: first thing you should use tool A using it along procedure B saman0suke: OK, I used tool A with procedure C then jaclaz: well, as said you should use tool A along procedure B saman0suke: OK, I had a friend using maybe tool D along an unknown procedure, here is the result jaclaz: result is no good Your turn. jaclaz Well, I can't tell if he made a mistake or something, he really knows about linux tools and all that since its job is about working on that environment, I asked him to create another image since he can leave the hard drive scanning at his work where they have like a "cold room" for the servers, disks, etc, that's why I asked this to him, maybe with a second image we could do something, but to be honest, I don't think is either a problem with the user or dd, more with the disk itself I'm sure he used dd since he told me a few days ago, maybe If I ask him the steps he made so I can tell you, and make sure he's not skipping a step, or doing it in the wrong way...