Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:19:43 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to recover data? - Formatted, Fdisk'd, and disklabeled ad1, now ad0 with FreeBSD is messed up Message-ID: <42F65ECF.20307@mkproductions.org>
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Hi everyone. I am in the process of taking the data from 4 NTFS drives, copying them to a temporary drive, and then formatting them, and creating partitions in UFS to be used with FreeBSD. I was having some problems with DMA errors on one of the drives yesterday, so it was suggested I try another one of the drives to narrow down the problem. So last night, I copy a nearly full 60GB drive (ad1) to my 160GB temporary FreeBSD drive (ad0). I checksum all the data to make sure it all copied correctly, and shut down for the night. This morning, I came back to format the 60GB drive. I formatted it and ran it through fdisk and disklabel. Whenever I do something like this, I always make sure I double and triple check that it says the correct drive at the top. In this case, it did. It said at the top I was modifying ad1 (the 60GB). I mounted the drive to make sure it worked, and it did. I went to reboot one final time, which I guess I shouldn't have done. After rebooting, it didn't come to the FreeBSD boot screens. I tried rebooting a few more times in case something happened along the way. Still nothing. I found the FreeBSD 5.4 install CD and booted to the FixIt live filesystem. I tried to look for my ad0 data, and I only saw /dev/ad0 and /dev/ad0s1. I mounted /dev/ad0s1, and it's my root (/) partition from before. I don't see any ad0s2, ad0s3, ad0s4, etc. As for ad1, I see ad1s1, ad1s1c, and ad1s1d. ad1s1 gives "Operation Not Permitted" when I try to mount it. ad1s1c and ad1s1d just show ".snap/" directories when I mount and ls them. If anyone has any suggestions I would be very much obliged. The 160GB drive (ad0) has two nearly full hard drives' data, and almost 10 years of important data on it. Thanks very much in advance. -Mark
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