From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 17: 6:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.voyageronline.net (earth.voyageronline.net [209.42.128.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4926D15056 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 17:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from byrd@vol.com) Received: from lorissa (MX-6-179.Chatt.VoyagerOnline.net [209.42.152.179]) by earth.voyageronline.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA20572 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:05:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000a01be61ed$7d1abbc0$0a0b030a@lorissa> From: "Lonny Byrd" To: Subject: mounting Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:06:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After attempting to mount an msdos partition using the command; mount -t msdos ... My BIOS (AMiBiOS) no longer detects the drive correctly, it is a Maxtor 8.4GB drive which is now detected in both amibios and award modular bios as a 2GB drive. Using Amibios I get a IDE error which does not allow the drive to work at all. I was able to get Award Modular bios allow the computer to boot up properly with the drive in place, but my boot disk now says that the drive is unformatted, and when I go into fdisk and try to look at the partitions on the drive it automatically kicks me out. I am quite upset about this, as I have just lost nearly 8GB of important data. Any help would be appreciated as to how I can get my data back and/or get the drive working properly in FreeBSD and in Windows...It has (or had) a 2GB FAT16 partition at the beginning and then the rest was formatted using FAT32. Lonny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message