From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 19:40:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11034 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11017 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:40:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA12404; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:10:17 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id OAA81411; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:10:15 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:10:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug Jolley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted partition Message-ID: <19990211141015.B71962@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199902110328.TAA12973@footech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902110328.TAA12973@footech.com>; from Doug Jolley on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 07:28:52PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 10 February 1999 at 19:28:52 -0800, Doug Jolley wrote: >> Is this the DOS partition? > > Yes. > >> You can't fix them with fsck. > > OK. So that's one of my problems. > >> If Microsoft supplies any tools for file recovery, use them under a >> Microsoft platform. > > What would you think about my just re-formatting the partition? > I'm well backed up. BTW, it's a bootable dos partition; so, > I would re-format with the /s option. You mean DOS format (in other words, newfs)? Yes, I suppose you could do that. But I'm not a Microsoft expert :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message