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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:19:29 +0100
From: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>
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Is there a utility to help restore the primary partition information for 
a disk with a fipsed freeBSD partition?

I'm not really sure how it got lost , but it was while I was using 
Win95, a couple of crashes later and I could no longer boot from the 
disk.

BIOS finds it but then that's it.

Are you going to tell me to reformat the disk, repartition and restore 
from backups? Fortunately I can , but I'm wondering about using the fips 
utility at all in the future.

Regards Paul Walsh