From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 20:03:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E8A16A419 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:03:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hannah.tgi.net (hannah.tgi.net [64.34.34.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECDB13C455 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:03:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: (qmail 10854 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2007 13:09:33 -0700 Received: from cs213-71.fsmodem.washington.edu (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (140.142.173.72) by virtual.greatnorthern.net with SMTP; 6 Oct 2007 13:09:33 -0700 Message-ID: <4707EA0D.1060204@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:03:25 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: [Solution] Unfixing Window NT's fixboot 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: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:03:57 -0000 I was trying to do the following to see if I could alleviate some problems booting XP to copying over all of my files from NTFS partitions to UFS partitions on the same machine: My layout for my slices are as follows: s1: FreeBSD s2: FreeBSD (extra) s3: XP (temporary) 1. Popped in XP CD. 2. Chose the 'recover shell' option. 3. Hit fixboot. fixboot claimed the slice 1 was corrupted (didn't know what to think of the UFS formatted slice ;)..), and then proceeded to 'fix it' on its own accord. The install was hosed so I had to reinstall XP. When I booted it up and took a look at Disk Management I noticed that there was 10MB of reserved FAT space, and it was globbing it all into slice 1's space, but denoted it as a FAT partition (surprise, surprise). I booted up a full install CD though, mounted a known slice/partition and all my data was still there! After doing a bit of research I couldn't find a definitive solution for my little problem, but being adventurous I tried using fdisk -B /dev/[disk_num], and everything appears to be back the way it should! Hopefully this helps someone else with a similar issue :). Cheers, -Garrett