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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
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Hi,

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330
takCoder <tak.official@gmail.com> wrote:

> *here's the question:*
> how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?!
> 
restore it from a backup?

> *and here's what has happened to me:*
> i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move
> it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main
> HD attached to may system as well..
> 
> all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main
> HD's bsd partition instead!!!

If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very
much on how far the Windows installation really went.

Erich