Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:27:34 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: "Jay Greever" <losttime@primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD CRASHED MY COMPUTER--PLEASE RESPOND ASAP IF POSSIBLE... Message-ID: <199801011527.QAA16600@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199712270052.RAA06393@smtp02.primenet.com> References: <199712270052.RAA06393@smtp02.primenet.com>
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"Jay Greever" <losttime@primenet.com> wrote: > then it would not let me boot at all, so i used a Win95 BOOT disk to access > my hard drives, when i then noticed that the FreeBSD BOOT disk must have > repartitioned my hard drives, it made them empty, and unaccessable from > DOS. the system was in some kind of weird characters, not in ALPHA form, > (i.e. alphabet letters). Well, i can read what you wrote, but i'm afraid noone of us has the slightest imagination of what actually happened. Your pieces of information are a little sparse (not your fault), and as you wrote you have reinstalled the machine anyway so you can't send us more details. This makes it impossible to even guess only what happened. > because of it, i lost all my personal information, files, and even Windows > 95 and the FreeBSD files...i then had to low-level format my hard drives Well, low-level format is a cannon for a fly. Dumping some sectors of zero's to the front of the disk would have sufficed. Anyway, this somewhat sounds like a problem with the disk geometry being misdetected by FreeBSD, for whatever reason. You didn't tell us what disk and geometries you were using, and what geometry sysinstall has detected, nor whether you are using anything like a `disk manager' (e.g. to make disks > 504 MB accessible on older BIOSes for DOS). All this could have been a reason. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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