Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:51:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> To: marko@uk.radan.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted partition Message-ID: <199902111751.JAA14997@footech.com>
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>I'd be careful of using ``/s'' (I take it you're talking about
>``format /s C:''?). As well as copying the system files it makes the
>disk/partition bootable and so will overwrite your MBR (and possibly
>alter the partition table). How do you boot FreeBSD? If you use
>Booteasy or similar it may not work afterwards.
Yes. That's exactly the concern I was talking about (although
I didn't say it nearly so eloquently :)). Actually, what I have
is 2 physical hard drives, a primary and a secondary. They
pretty much are mirror images of one another and they are both
bootable. The idea is that in the event of disaster affecting
the primary drive, I can always just boot the secondary drive.
Both drives contain a small dos partition. I'm not near the
box to take a look right now; but, it's my recollection that
I have things set up so that I can boot either FreeBSD or DOS
on either drive (i.e., 4 boot choices). It turns out that the
corrputed DOS partition is on the secondary drive.
So, now that I've better explained the situation, what would you
suggest in terms of getting that DOS partition repaired? I don't
care at all about the data on it. Once it's repaired, I'll just
copy the contents of the DOS partition on the primary drive to it.
As you point out, what I don't want to do is mess up the way things
boot. Any thoughts?
Thanks for the input.
>HTH.
???
... doug
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