Do not modify data on the disks right now. Make copy with dd (if you have enough space) and do your work on copies. I assume you turned DBAN off asap, I also assume DBAN begins overwriting data on disks from the beginning. First thing I would try to do is to recover mbrs and partition tables. It is safe to assume that your disk with 1 partition had partition that starts at the beginning of the disk. So, create that partition (with fdisk / sfdisk / cfdisk) on your working image. Do not use gparted unless you are sure it won't try to be "helpful" and won't start mkfs right after you created partitions. Now, if DBAN overwrote only beginning of your partition you should be able to restore filesystem's superblock, use fsck and read your data (with broken files in lost+found). I've never done that before, see [1]. For disk with 6 partitions use testdisk to restore mbr and partition table. It probably will not detect first partition, but others should be OK (depends how much DBAN managed to overwrite. I'm afraid with ssd it may be much). Try to fix first partition with fsck ([1]). Also, check photorec. [1] http://linuxexpresso.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/repair-a-broken-ext4-superbloc... -- Krzysztof Warzecha