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From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
To: Venom MaNes <electronicvenom@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: wrongly using Fdisk with my 40G hardisk
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:18:48PM +0000, Venom MaNes wrote:
>
>
>Dear BSD
>
>I had encountered a problem that my Second hardisk IBM 40G has
>been converted to BSD format , original, i have a few partition of FAT
>on it, and once is Ext2, but after running FDISK, it said, my whole
>second hardisk (40G) becomes to freeBSD format, now, i thought all stuff
>is still inside the hardisk,but i can't access it. How could my FAT data
>be recovered ? is there any clue for it?
>
>Cheers.
>
>Venom
>

A program called gpart will wald through the whole disk, determine the type and where the partition boundaries are and provide a new partition table so you can mount them again.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

of course it takes a while to run...

// George


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