From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 7:24:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAC137B405 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3DED43E88 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g71ENXq16770; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:23:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200208011423.g71ENXq16770@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Recovering partitions To: iwes@Silver.TotalMac.net (rheaB seW) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:23:33 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020731232008.A66933@Silver.TotalMac.net> from "rheaB seW" at Jul 31, 2002 11:20:08 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Well, I've certainly done it now. > Thanks to Windows 98's friendly setup that will partition your entire > hard drive for you, I now am lacking my FreeBSD partition (replaced > with a single Primary DOS partition). > > Is there any way to recover my lost partitions? If it's possible by > somehow getting the superblock count.. or something.. I'd sure > appreciate the help. Maybe, if it hasn't been reformatted or written over. There are a couple of utilities that try and do stuff. You might check out Partition Magic which isn't too expensive (around $60). If anything but the low level slice table has been written over, you may be out of luck unless you are willling to spend a lot of money for a coommercial recovery service. Are you sure it actually made a new partition or just overwrote the boot block and won't now find the FreeBSD partition for booting? You can hope that is the case, because then you only have to replace the boot block with a smarter one, such as the one FreeBSD will put there with fdisk which can boot either. Good luck, ////jerry > > Thanks, > Wes > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message