Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:49:57 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) Message-ID: <5093CF85.4080708@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP2000A2F18699724EBB86133F6670@phx.gbl> References: <mailman.71.1351857602.2182.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <BLU0-SMTP2000A2F18699724EBB86133F6670@phx.gbl>
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Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 14:39: >> 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? > > I trust that you by now have discovered that your trust was never breached > by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only > OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force > was only an invitation to Microsoft to run amok. > > BTW, the reason I replied to this message was not to provide you with a > solution but with a trivial yet good bit of precaution I use on my own > dual-boot PC, wherein ad4s1 is NTFS/Windows and ad4s2 is my FreeBSD slice. > Right after installation of FreeBSD, I ran : > > dd if=/dev/ad4 of=ad4.512 bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=ad4s2.512 bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/dev/ad4s2a of=ad4s2a.512 bs=512 count=1 > > No matter how Windows screws up the MBR or FreeBSD's slice, recovering from > the situation is simple enough. > > Regards > > Manish Jain > bourne.identity@hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Thank you for your comment. I must admit that I do not fully understand what it is you do. Will you explain the details, Please? Thanks /Leslie
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