From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 07:04:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBE216A412 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:04:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from junkmail.blackhole@happy-fish.org.uk) Received: from mail.happy-fish.org.uk (mail.happy-fish.org.uk [81.174.128.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C537243D46 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:04:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from junkmail.blackhole@happy-fish.org.uk) From: Mad Timekeeper To: freebsd-questions@happy-fish.org.uk Message-ID: Newsgroups: freebsd-questions Path: anonymous Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:04:28 +0100 References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.640 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 Cc: Subject: Re: I am such a fool! How to recover my data? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:04:35 -0000 On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:39:17 +0100, Mad Timekeeper wrote: >2. Then I would get the full details of the partition table as it is >now. In my case I would use Norton's utility ptedit.exe, which you >can download from their ftp site. You'll need to make a windows boot >floppy (or CD if you don't have a floppy drive) and run ptedit.exe >from that. I just remembered that there is another Norton utility: partinfo.exe that just extracts the partition information, whereas ptedit allows you to edit the partition table.