From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 16:42:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 B574D16A4AB for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:42:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kyrreny@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C580A43D77 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:41:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kyrreny@broadpark.no) Received: from broadpark.no ([217.13.4.96]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J7C007BEBPOR690@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:41:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [80.202.4.61] (Forwarded-For: [80.203.212.30]) by bgo1mstore1.broadpark.no (mshttpd); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:41:48 +0200 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:41:48 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <7846ca476d9a.4536756c@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Cc: Subject: Broken partition table X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:42:07 -0000 Hello! My partition table is messed up. I have a 150 gigabyte S-ATA hard drive, with a single NTFS partition running Windows XP. I've been running gpart /dev/ad0 for the last 14 hours now and it's not saying anything. I just want to get my data back. I don't care if I have to reinstall everything. How it all came about is a long story. I ran a second hard disk drive, with FreeBSD, and GRUB so it could do my dual booting. But I needed the space, so I formatted it to NTFS from Windows XP. That's it really, after that, it wouldn't boot. Couldn't load NTLDR. That's when I tried a lot of different things. boot0cfg, fixmbr and fixboot. I even managed changing its system ID type to FAT using fdisk -- I wasn't thinking clearly -- I was in deep shock. I have also tried gpart from Knoppix, but all its guesses came out as zero. I've also tried running gpart from Insert, another Linux distribution, but it totally freaked out about some I/O stuff. Linux uses SCSI drivers for S-ATA though. Is my only choice now to keep running gpart, even if it will run forever? All suggestions welcome, please! Best regards, Kyrre