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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:33:27PM -0400, Bryant Eadon wrote:
[...]
> 
> I know it's a 7200 RPM drive, with an 8MB cache and 200G of physical space
> ( ~ 186GB after formatting in NTFS), the Western Digital Special Edition
> 200G drive.
> 
> I want to restore my data, but I am scared to change the disklabel at the
> thought of losing the 150+G of data that is on the drive.  Can anyone PLEASE
> provide details on how I might be able to restore my data, right now I can't
> mount it anywhere?   Any help is appreciated.
> 

Try to mount it in read-only mode, some NTFS disks use to make crash my
boxes if I "forget" to add -o ro option in the mount command.

By default any mount operation is done in read/write mode.

Marc