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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:55:35 +0300
From:      Erik Udo <erik.u@dnainternet.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Messed up my partition
Message-ID:  <417957A7.30602@dnainternet.net>

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My boot loader wansn't working properly and i didn't find my 5.2.1
install cd, so i grabbed 4.4(or is that 4.6) install cd, and chose fdisk,
marked the freebsd partition bootable(S), and wrote changes.

I didn't notice that it had made my about 150GB partition as
100GB(ad0s3) and 60GB(unused) partitions.

After that i haven't touched the partitions,  so it should be  possible to
retrieve the data.

I had one slice on that partition and i think it is dirty, i accidently
pressed the reset instead of the power button.

So i heard in  #freebsdhelp@EFnet that i could retrieve the data on that
partition by modifying the partition table(like the beginning and the 
end of the partition).
I dont know any probrams that could do this, how to use them or what to 
change.

Here is some information about my HD:
-200GB maxtor

Offset       Size(MB)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype    
Flags 
        0          0         62        -     12     unused        0
       63              20473   41929649    ad0s1      8    freebsd      
165          41929650        10236   62894474    ad0s2      7        
fat       12
 62894475     100361  268435454    ad0s3      8    freebsd      165
268435455      63409  398297087        -        12     unused        0

And please, answer me. this is rather important. I'll answer any 
questions as soon as i can.
Any help is greatly appreciated.



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