Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:47:44 -0400 (EDT) From: David David <ddavid_3@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MBR, Partition File recover Message-ID: <20030416004744.20978.qmail@web11303.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, Through a series of very stupid actions i did today i have very successfully blown a giant hole in my foot. Hopefully i can make this as short as possible. The short of it is, i had FreeBSD 4.7, Gentoo Linux and WinXP installed on my system and was going to do a complete re-install of FreeBSD and Gentoo. I backed up all my files from my drive's into .bz2 files, and placed them in a folder of one of my FreeBSD partitions. I also had turned a spare drive into a storage drive formatted ext2 which i copied al the files into as added bonus. So while re0installing Gentoo first, one of the steps in the Install doc was to dd the mbr of the drive's you wanted to use, here's what i did to the drive's: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1, etc for the other drive's i was going to use. Unfortunately while sleeping i also did this to the drive that had my backup files on my FreeBSD partition, also due too some more airheaded-ness i managed to fsck up the spare drive ext2 file system leaving me at present, looking around the net for a way of recovering those files, either from the ext2fs or the FreeBSD file system. So i was wandering if some kind soul out there could possibly suggest some action's ( besides jumping from a bridge, which i have finally ruled out for the moment) that i might take to either restore the 1k or mbr if that's what i deleted, or of a way of recovering those file's of that drive? One note, since i did the "dd" above i have not touched the drive in question in any way, it's the same as when i re-booted out of FreeBSD minus that 1k. (Ok, now for the humble begging part) Please! Please! Please! could someone put up some suggestions that i might try to get those file's back. Save me from taking that dive of a bridge, and i promise, promise promise!!! never too be such a dolt in the future. Thanks! David PS: Please CC me ddavid_3@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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