Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:40:46 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <tigspok1@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD crashed Message-ID: <00e801c1440b$70b195e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010922074858.NQFA10595.femail33.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there>
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I know this is a troll but just in case: Look Alan, you said you had to re-do your entire hard disk after it was messed up. Well I don't recall any posting from you a few days ago saying that you thought that FreeBSD had damaged your system and was there any way to save your data before reformatting it all? In short, Alan (if your real, that is) you had a problem with FreeBSD and recognized you had a problem, but rather than go to the support venue to get assistance, you chose to jump to conclusions and wipe your disk off. Now your coming to us blaming us for losing all your data when it was you that wiped your disk. Nobody here that I know of gave you instructions to do this, so why are you blaming us? How do you know the data was actually gone and not just hidden somewhere? If I ignore all the technical discrepancies and atrocious spelling here, this almost sounds like an attempted dual-boot installation, with FreeBSD on one partition and Windows on another. Well, if this was the case, your problem may have been nothing more than that the Windows partition was set inactive, and merely booting with a DOS floppy and running fdisk and setting the Windows partition back to active may have been all that was needed to get it running again. But, of course you ran off half-cocked, assuming the worst, and wiped your disk out, and now your crying to the people that could have helped you if you had come to us before assuming something and making an ass out of yourself. I'd almost believe that if this was a failed dual-boot installation and as you seem to know nothing about disk partitioning, that you reinstalled Windows on the FreeBSD partition, and now you have 2 partitions on the disk, one with your original Windows installation with all the files and one that's the new one. But, of course your rambling is so disjointed that it's impossible to know with certainty what your actually talking about. Remember, Email first - THEN bong hits, not the other way round! Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alan >Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 12:55 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: FreeBSD crashed > > >I have been using Win98 SE for over a year now and Windows in general for >over 20 years, and lunix for over five years. I tried your FreeBSD system >since my roommate has been using it and other *inx type systems for over ten >years now. I have installed your system with his help and then tried to >reboot and go back into Windows. I did NOT have my Win harddrive pluged in, >so windows should not have been touch. I got back into BSD and then he >showed me how to mount my windows harddrive and cp files from >Windows to BSD. > I then shutdown and unpluged BSD and pluged in Windows and had nothing. I >could not get Windows to boot. I have had to re-due my harddrive and have >lost all of my information on my harddrive because of this. Some of these >files are of legell use and can not afford to be lost. YOUR so called >FreeBSD system is crap. I am very upset at this and intend to notify >Microsoft of this just on the offset that you or someone in your company has >put some kind of code or virus on your system to attack a Windows system. >This seems to be the only reason to the problem that your system has caused >me. I will also be mailing them the same CD iso image that I used for them >to install and then invetagate. YOUR system destroyed my Windows!! >I will no >longer be using ANY BSD product. Now I understand why so many >people are not >using anything but Windows, they do not destroy your system if you connect >the two together. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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