From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 00:03:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09782 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:03:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09771 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10Ar5Q-0007UM-00; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:03:01 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01611; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:02:27 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02086; Thu, 11 Feb 99 08:02:26 GMT Message-Id: <36C28CAA.655CBEC8@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:54:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Jolley Cc: grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted partition References: <199902110328.TAA12973@footech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > I'd be careful of using ``/s'' (I take it you're talking about ``format /s C:''?). As well as copying the system files it makes the disk/partition bootable and so will overwrite your MBR (and possibly alter the partition table). How do you boot FreeBSD? If you use Booteasy or similar it may not work afterwards. HTH. > Thanks so much for the input. > > ... doug > _____________________________________________________________________ > Doug Jolley mailto://doug@footech.com http://www.footech.com > Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message