From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 04:37:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16E816A423 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:37:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jofsama@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 111C443D67 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:37:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jofsama@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 44802 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2006 04:37:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:Importance:In-Reply-To:X-MimeOLE; b=CpKx+CEEnfPCEcLvMWrg+erA33MkAvD7+AkIsQE5OW1ORC5Tr152WpsQ234c/+4rkzcvjUZAuEfWldM3CDlt6K9FCXdqGci/WCY55S7FU0vY8OOZ/yhb+AaZicqv23oXLJtyrFf9gqW4YTHcswKlogp9IztgIiRakpLQ91C0k6A= ; Received: from unknown (HELO HAPLO) (jofsama@219.161.9.219 with login) by smtp008.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2006 04:37:37 -0000 From: "Jarrod O'Flaherty" To: Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:39:19 +0900 Message-ID: <000001c64658$197740f0$040ba8c0@HAPLO> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help with lost MBR on USB HDD 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: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:37:40 -0000 Hi fbsd_user, Happy to help! The tools I used were: > dd (pre-installed in FreeBSD) > chexedit (available under /usr/ports/editors/chexedit) In terms of literature I read a great deal, all of which was helpful. Perhaps the most helpful links though were: o http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwchs.htm o http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q140418/ o http://www.ranish.com/part/primer.htm o http://cnlart.web.cern.ch/cnlart/236/disk_partition.html o http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html#s6 o http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/DiskTerms.htm o http://home.att.net/~rayknights/pc_boot/w95b_mbr.htm o http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8661 o http://www.digit-life.com/articles/bootman/index.html o http://www.uneraser.com/mbr-damaged.htm o http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/file/part.html o http://linux.com.hk/penguin/man/8/gpart.html You might also like to look into the tool "gpart", the last link in the list above. I didn't need anything that sophisticated fortunately. Good luck!! Regards, Jarrod. > -----Original Message----- > From: fbsd_user [mailto:fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 2:41 AM > To: Jarrod O'Flaherty > Subject: RE: Help with lost MBR on USB HDD > > > I am having problem with my mbr. > Interested in knowing what tool you used to manipulate the > mbr. Also would like to receive your bookmarks on this > subject. Any other tips or things you learned would be helpful. > > Thanks > >