From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 18:20:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DE816A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:20:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from ylpvm12.prodigy.net (ylpvm12-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8D643F41 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:20:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (pimout5-int.prodigy.net [207.115.4.21]) by ylpvm12.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j77IKrck028810 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:20:53 -0400 X-ORBL: [66.139.109.212] Received: from [192.168.1.45] (ppp-66-139-109-212.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [66.139.109.212]) by pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j77IKmCl085528 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:20:53 -0400 Message-ID: <42F65ECF.20307@mkproductions.org> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:19:43 -0500 From: Mark Kane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050620) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How to recover data? - Formatted, Fdisk'd, and disklabeled ad1, now ad0 with FreeBSD is messed up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:20:55 -0000 Hi everyone. I am in the process of taking the data from 4 NTFS drives, copying them to a temporary drive, and then formatting them, and creating partitions in UFS to be used with FreeBSD. I was having some problems with DMA errors on one of the drives yesterday, so it was suggested I try another one of the drives to narrow down the problem. So last night, I copy a nearly full 60GB drive (ad1) to my 160GB temporary FreeBSD drive (ad0). I checksum all the data to make sure it all copied correctly, and shut down for the night. This morning, I came back to format the 60GB drive. I formatted it and ran it through fdisk and disklabel. Whenever I do something like this, I always make sure I double and triple check that it says the correct drive at the top. In this case, it did. It said at the top I was modifying ad1 (the 60GB). I mounted the drive to make sure it worked, and it did. I went to reboot one final time, which I guess I shouldn't have done. After rebooting, it didn't come to the FreeBSD boot screens. I tried rebooting a few more times in case something happened along the way. Still nothing. I found the FreeBSD 5.4 install CD and booted to the FixIt live filesystem. I tried to look for my ad0 data, and I only saw /dev/ad0 and /dev/ad0s1. I mounted /dev/ad0s1, and it's my root (/) partition from before. I don't see any ad0s2, ad0s3, ad0s4, etc. As for ad1, I see ad1s1, ad1s1c, and ad1s1d. ad1s1 gives "Operation Not Permitted" when I try to mount it. ad1s1c and ad1s1d just show ".snap/" directories when I mount and ls them. If anyone has any suggestions I would be very much obliged. The 160GB drive (ad0) has two nearly full hard drives' data, and almost 10 years of important data on it. Thanks very much in advance. -Mark