Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:39:17 +0100 From: Mad Timekeeper <junkmail@blackhole.happy-fish.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@happy-fish.org.uk Subject: Re: I am such a fool! How to recover my data? Message-ID: <HPPY48EF0FEF@happy-fish.org.uk> References: <b6bc10d016d9.45339cda@broadpark.no>
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:53:14 +0200, Kyrre Nygård <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote: I'm no FreeBSD expert... yet - so I would revert to Windows. So this is what I would do: 1. Use whatever software I can lay my hands on to make a full copy of the disk (your disk 1, I think), e.g. Norton Ghost or DriveImage. That way, if you screw up the recovery, you still have another copy and another chance. Running those utilities may result in some error messgaes if the partition table is screwed up - if so STOP, and don't agree to make any changes - seek advice bfore making any changes. 2. Then I would get the full details of the partition table as it is now. In my case I would use Norton's utility ptedit.exe, which you can download from their ftp site. You'll need to make a windows boot floppy (or CD if you don't have a floppy drive) and run ptedit.exe from that. 3. Then report back with the details. It may be simple or very difficult! Also explain how you think the disk was formatted before: was it just the complete disk as a single NTFS primary partition? Cheers
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