Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:00:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: fdisk Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010021658060.83540@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20101002113640.2ab36871@asus64> References: <20101002113640.2ab36871@asus64>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Robert wrote: > Greetings > > I am in deep with the wife. Her computer went belly up. It was running > XP pro and I had backups going to a second drive. I can no longer access > that drive. > > I pulled it and attached it via USB to one of my FreeBSD machines but > it will not mount. It is a 500G hard drive and I get _wild_ results just > looking at it with fdisk. > > ~> fdisk /dev/da1s1 > ******* Working on device /dev/da1s1 ******* Wait a minute... shouldn't that be just "da1"? da1s1 is the first slice (partition), and the data there should be your XP filesystem, probably NTFS.
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