From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 10 00:04:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA11186 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA11172 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA20722; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:05:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: jennifer horne cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dos killed my HD In-Reply-To: <199707100301.XAA29828@cyber3.servtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, jennifer horne wrote: > I am in desperate need of help. > I am running (was) FreeBSD 3.0-970502 on a 500 meg IDE hard drive , as > drive 0. I had a 116meg DOS drive in as drive 3. Today I was installing > windows on the drive and noticed the DOS on it was old so i stuck in a dos > 6 disk and started setup. I hit enter to continue setup, so on , it told > me to wait and to my astonishment without asking me started formatting C: > which wasnt desirable for the DOS drive or my FBSD drive. It got to about > 2000 bytes before i hit reboot. Now my fbsd partition and drive info is > toast and I would really like to save it if possible . > I do not know the exact size of each partition. All I know for sure is the > whole disk was for FBSD. > > Im running off of fixit.flp until I can get an answer. Did it really wipe out your FreeBSD partition or just the boot manager? Easy way to find out is to boot from a dos disk and use fdisk to see if the FreeBSD partition still exists. If it is just the boot manager, install booteasy. > > > > Thanks > >