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oh, yeah.  duh.  If you can boot a live cd you can play with
the filesystem (fsck, etc).

You might also try finding a bootable disk diagnostic utility
to see if it can find anything correctable.

Cheers,

Sam

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ivan Osipkov wrote:

> Sam wrote:
>
>> Maybe VMWare can boot Freesbie.
>> 
>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ivan Osipkov wrote:
>> 
>>> I have DELL 5150 Inspiron with Windows XP on one partition and 
>>> FreeBSD-CURRENT on
>>> another. The hardware failed and now I cannot mount /usr. Dell diagnostics 
>>> say that
>>> there is unrecoverable data block, which means hard drive has to be 
>>> replaced.
>>> 
>>> My question: is there a Windows tool to access files on BSD partition?
>>> 
>>> Thanks guys
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> Anything simpler? Would Live CD from FreeBSD work?
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