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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:05:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To:        jennifer horne <isis@servtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dos killed my HD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970710000445.20404B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707100301.XAA29828@cyber3.servtech.com>

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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, jennifer horne wrote:

> I am in desperate need of help. 
> I am running (was) FreeBSD 3.0-970502 on a 500 meg IDE hard drive , as
> drive 0. I had a 116meg DOS drive in as drive 3. Today I was installing
> windows on the drive and noticed the DOS on it was old so i stuck in a dos
> 6 disk and started setup. I hit enter to continue setup, so on , it told
> me to wait and to my astonishment without asking me started formatting C: 
> which wasnt desirable for the DOS drive or my FBSD drive. It got to about
> 2000 bytes before i hit reboot. Now my fbsd partition and drive info is
> toast and I would really like to save it if possible . 
> I do not know the exact size of each partition. All I know for sure is the
> whole disk was for FBSD.
> 
> Im running off of fixit.flp until I can get an answer. 

Did it really wipe out your FreeBSD partition or just the boot manager?
Easy way to find out is to boot from a dos disk and use fdisk to see if
the FreeBSD partition still exists.


If it is just the boot manager, install booteasy.



> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 





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