Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:50:56 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> To: Nabil Hassan Mustafa <b98045@lums.edu.pk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Crash!!! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970407215002.6229E-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970408091954.21642A-100000@ravi.lums.edu.pk>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Nabil Hassan Mustafa wrote: > > 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 I'm not exactly up-to-date on all the internal ops, but can't the boot.flp or fixit.flp floppies do stuff like refind the partition if the MBR gets corrupted? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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