From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 21:26:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA15187 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abaseen.lums.edu.pk (abaseen.lums.edu.pk [203.128.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA15173 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:26:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ravi.lums.edu.pk (really [203.128.0.4]) by lums.edu.pk via sendmail with esmtp id for Received: from localhost (b98045@localhost) by ravi.lums.edu.pk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA21740 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:28:16 +0500 (PKT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:28:16 +0500 (PKT) From: Nabil Hassan Mustafa To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: System Crash!!! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I really need to recover some VERY important files on my FreeBSD partition... I have Windows NT, Win95, and FreeBSD currently running on my system, each on a separate partition. My Win95 partition was recently infected by a certain "natas.mp.1823" virus. I booted from a clean DOS floppy to remove it, but failed... the result being that except for my 95 partition, the NT, and the FreeBSD partition are lost...since the MBR is destroyed. I ran Norton Disk Doctor, and it recovered by NT partition. But it did not detect or recover my FreeBSD partition. I tried running fbsdboot.exe, but the error was " could not find /kernel " . I tried many boot managers, but none detected the FreeBSD partition. I have my project due to 2 weeks. If ANYONE can give me ANY information that might just recover some of my files from the FreeBSD partition, it would be a great help. Thanks in advance, Nabil Hassan Mustafa Computer Science Major Lahore University of Management Sciences ------------------------------------------------------------------- Living on the earh may be expensive, but it does include a free annual trip around the sun :-) . ------------------------------------------------------------------- email : b98045@lums.edu.pk URL : http://www.lums.edu.pk/~b98045