From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 22:35:14 2003 Return-Path: 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 6C93E16A4CF for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:35:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9FE43D3F for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from miguel (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hBT6ZCU6000355; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:35:12 -0500 Message-Id: <200312290635.hBT6ZCU6000355@mail1.acecape.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" , "Malcolm Kay" Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:39:12 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <200312291457.13426.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Francisco Reyes List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:35:14 -0000 On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:57:13 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: >How big was the image you copied to the disk? -- that should tell >you how much of your drive is overwritten. The image was about 4MB. >It is probable your disklabel has also disappeared, so you >probably need to reconstruct both the slice table in the MBR and >the disklabel in the first slice. With some vague recollections of >what you did originally to install FBSD it is possible that some >lucky guesses might work. How would I go about that? >If you can find the first sector of a slice carrying an installed file >system then this might hold a copy of the slice table allowing >reconstruction of the original MBR with some confidence. How? Other than not playing around with dd how can one safeguard from something like this in the future? Is there a way to backup the disklable and slice info? After all this is cleared I am also going to check what is the best way to keep a working copy of my entire system. On windows I have a program, driveimage, which I use to every night keep an image of the entire disk while the system is on. Has saved me many times..