Comment 15 for bug 574462

@#13, you need to trash all recognisable traces of filesystems and partitions to recover. At present, only older linux distros can recover, but i didn't have much success with them booting on the EeePC (YMMV of course)

OpenSolaris revived my setup every time, but for those fearing continued write damage this is going to make you wince. The process is:-

1. get an img from genunix.org (milax is ideal as its very small)
2. boot it
3. at a shell, pfexec format
4. choose the disk, it should be fairly clear which is which
5. [A]nalyze
6. [P]urge

Sit back and watch the speed of an SSD!