Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:06:21 +0000 (UTC) From: D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: Ezat - Ezatech <ezat@ezatech.com.au> Cc: web@umich.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help for a wounded disk drive... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.00.0803212204150.97324@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <47E42D08.1020703@ezatech.com.au> References: <20080321173950.GF26011@dell1> <47E42D08.1020703@ezatech.com.au>
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 at 08:47 +1100, ezat@ezatech.com.au confabulated: > Hey William, > > Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its > way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under > freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. > > I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it into a ms > windows box. Then I used a free proggy called ffsdrv which i found on > sourceforge. > > Snipit --> > > It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on > Windows 2000/XP/2003. > http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ > > Managed to get all data off this way. This is just what I was looking for to mount an FBSD drive on XP. Thanks! I was able to completely transfer all data from the drive just now. ---- _| |_|
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