From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 15:15:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CBB37B408 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 15:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Jeian [4.34.234.82] by myrealbox.com with NIMS ModWeb Module; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:15:21 -0400 Subject: Why my FAT32 partition got "corrupted" From: John Cantu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:15:21 -0400 X-Mailer: NIMS ModWeb Module X-Sender: Jeian MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1003097721.60310ffaJeian@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Some time back, I posted that my FAT32 partition was corrupted by FreeBSD, = and that I needed help... You'll probably all laugh at me once I tell you= what happened, but I'll tell you all FYI, in case anyone else needs to h= ear this. Simply put, somehow the partition type for that particular partition got se= t to decimal 27 instead of hex 0x0B. I could mount that partition once I = specified the file type, but Windows couldn't boot from it, and fdisk did= n't know what it was. Easy solution: After dithering helplessly for about= 2 weeks, it suddenly came to me. I looked up the correct type, (hex 0x0B= , dec 11) ran /stand/sysinstall to reset the partition to type 11, and vo= ila! It worked! Just in case anyone cares... John Cantu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message