From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 18:49:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15DC1065696 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (fed1rmmtao107.cox.net [68.230.241.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E3B8FC22 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:49:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo03.cox.net ([70.169.32.75]) by fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20101006184953.YLSY3990.fed1rmmtao107.cox.net@fed1rmimpo03.cox.net> for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:49:53 -0400 Received: from asus64 ([72.220.91.53]) by fed1rmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id FWps1f00d194WAG04Wpsac; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:49:53 -0400 X-VR-Score: -90.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=ZQ6Y7pMpbf3IjBwcEMB58TnwUaYQ/k9O+va7hVMiiyI= c=1 sm=1 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=kGT7vLq0O+GHAcZnhcuE1w==:17 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=j4Y_AHyLZSSTjWPZtRwA:9 a=U5xLy_wjbx8UPPd6wPIA:7 a=loGx_XVVi9W3a1NcLLdXlbqyDMQA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=kGT7vLq0O+GHAcZnhcuE1w==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:49:47 -0700 From: Robert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101006114947.3cb1dcd0@asus64> In-Reply-To: <20101004114249.738a80fa@asus64> References: <20101004120028.1860F10657D0@hub.freebsd.org> <20101005020924.H59829@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20101004114249.738a80fa@asus64> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: OT: fdisk - Data Recovered 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: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:49:54 -0000 On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:42:49 -0700 Robert wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith wrote: > > Ian > > I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted > to respond to you. You have given a lot of good advice and > information and I appreciate it. > To all who responded to my ntfs fiasco, not only do I thank you but the wife passes along her thanks and makes the point that she didn't need a second bottle of wine. :-) The above dd operation finished late last night but I didn't start working on until this morning. Using FreeBSD it acted exactly as the other dd attempts did, i.e. I could mount_ntfs /dev/ad6 and see the same as I did before but ad6s1 failed to mount as ntfs. ad6s1 would mount with no fs specified but nothing was readable. I rebooted into Windows XP and to my surprise the computer restarted right after the desktop rendered. I then booted into safe mode with command prompt. This booted successfully and then I changed drives until I found the data I was looking for. The 1tb drive, now showing as 500GB, appeared as drive G: I ran chkdsk against g: and after finding and clearing several errors it quit without completing. I tried to boot normal and the computer rebooted after the desktop rendered again. I then booted into safe mode and it came up and ran OK. I was able to open the drive and see the data I needed. I inserted a thumb drive and copied the data over. I'm her hero again and we will have the second bottle tonight. :-) Thanks again to everyone for all the great help. Robert