From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 17 11:21:18 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B622114 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:21:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talayeh.asadi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x236.google.com (ia-in-x0236.1e100.net [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::236]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E381D8 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f182.google.com with SMTP id w33so4472420iag.13 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:21:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:cc:content-type; bh=uiQEXSl/oUmpdvuZFzqM9X3NdGEI3kcATXZuJfyq9sM=; b=rvm7Qa0A+qArle8z+Xtfjm4ESwadIZntqdrzBAzuHZtca51sp5wQRAEl9wXJ0oJF9S d/n7VC/7cGoQrrQysorvIWPRSNDF9kkjOzRDUx9d/i2SaDIR3/aWvmtRR+DqhoPMk7mG qIcqtMi3JabDaoR8tuKrQduotBccA3pbQz8Wz4pdGEUYEYhDJjF5mxZAiBm+XhVd6eHh cFVYdwU8WDqqYextR5YIytZInkEiF0ITmx9pDx4PGH+eRj8c1dEUFR0gZwYZ6dMgSw1w U4nWZtwp5SKqI5XvZk1uQv+hknA8PrBDZkhBOTOX1D3cHLokVN1Y79wFSO/7uCIyUOCz q85Q== X-Received: by 10.43.111.201 with SMTP id ep9mr4374789icc.43.1361100077518; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:21:17 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: talayeh.asadi@gmail.com Received: by 10.43.125.130 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:20:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130217180116.63bc8052@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <20130217180116.63bc8052@X220.ovitrap.com> From: takCoder Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:50:57 +0330 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9JvgIj_Lu16-GA-jfI_pt3BTZ3U Message-ID: Subject: Re: bsd lost partition recovery Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: tak.official@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:21:18 -0000 Thank you for your reply.. On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky < erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > >On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 > >takCoder wrote: > > >> *here's the question:* > >> how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! > >> > >restore it from a backup? > no, from the formatted hard drive.. if only i had a backup.. > > >> *and here's what has happened to me:* > >> i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move > >> it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main > >> HD attached to may system as well.. > >> > >> all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main > >> HD's bsd partition instead!!! > > If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very > much on how far the Windows installation really went. > > i just deleted the partition and then found out what i just did, then i stopped the installation process and start looking ways for recovery.. till now, somewhere in the web i saw that R-Studio supports ufs recovery but it's a windows application.. i'm preparing a system for checking it right now.. Best Regards, t.a.k On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky < erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 > takCoder wrote: > > > *here's the question:* > > how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! > > > restore it from a backup? > > > *and here's what has happened to me:* > > i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move > > it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main > > HD attached to may system as well.. > > > > all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main > > HD's bsd partition instead!!! > > If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very > much on how far the Windows installation really went. > > Erich >