Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:39:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211012134300.31970@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <50924049.1020400@eskk.nu> References: <50924049.1020400@eskk.nu>
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. > > My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice > with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). > > In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program was supplied with > the new disk. > > When trying to clone that partition the process couldn't finish because it > needed a chkdsk command to be executed before cloning. > > I ran a chkdsk c: with the choice of correcting errors. > > Somewhere in that process the chkdsk program touched my freebsd partition in > a way so that it now is recognized as NTFS. > > That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in > retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as recent as > I would have liked. > > Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd > partition? If all it did was change the partition type, that should be easy to change back with gpart modify. Untested example below, make a backup of the disk as it is right now first. Clonezilla will make a (large) binary backup. # gpart modify -i2 -t !165 ada0
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