From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Dec 26 16:53:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16987 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 16:53:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16982 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 16:52:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from losttime@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06393 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 17:52:54 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712270052.RAA06393@smtp02.primenet.com> Received: from ip166.pay.primenet.com(204.212.57.166), claiming to be "losttime.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd006379; Fri Dec 26 17:52:48 1997 From: "Jay Greever" To: Subject: FreeBSD CRASHED MY COMPUTER--PLEASE RESPOND ASAP IF POSSIBLE... Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 05:51:57 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk when i made a boot disk for FreeBSD, i made it like it said, then i placed it in my A: drive, rebooted, then this message came up: ------------------------------(THIS IS NOT EXACTLY AS IT WAS PRINTED ON MY SCREEN)-- PRESS F5 for HELP ... Disk 2 ...F? BOOT: ------------------------------(THIS IS NOT EXACTLY AS IT WAS PRINTED ON MY SCREEN)-- this is the general screen that it printed on my computer, it wouldnt let me do anything, so i removed the disk and rebooted my computer. then it would not let me boot at all, so i used a Win95 BOOT disk to access my hard drives, when i then noticed that the FreeBSD BOOT disk must have repartitioned my hard drives, it made them empty, and unaccessable from DOS. the system was in some kind of weird characters, not in ALPHA form, (i.e. alphabet letters). because of it, i lost all my personal information, files, and even Windows 95 and the FreeBSD files...i then had to low-level format my hard drives just to get FDISK to recognize them as Hard Drives and not removable media or write-protected media. could you please help me out by telling me what happened, like why it did that to my hard drives... please email me back ASAP so i can figure out what to do now sincerely, Jay Greever, (aka--ThE inFAMouS LostTime)