Messed up my partition
Erik Udo
erik.u at dnainternet.net
Fri Oct 22 11:55:37 PDT 2004
My boot loader wansn't working properly and i didn't find my 5.2.1
install cd, so i grabbed 4.4(or is that 4.6) install cd, and chose fdisk,
marked the freebsd partition bootable(S), and wrote changes.
I didn't notice that it had made my about 150GB partition as
100GB(ad0s3) and 60GB(unused) partitions.
After that i haven't touched the partitions, so it should be possible to
retrieve the data.
I had one slice on that partition and i think it is dirty, i accidently
pressed the reset instead of the power button.
So i heard in #freebsdhelp at EFnet that i could retrieve the data on that
partition by modifying the partition table(like the beginning and the
end of the partition).
I dont know any probrams that could do this, how to use them or what to
change.
Here is some information about my HD:
-200GB maxtor
Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype
Flags
0 0 62 - 12 unused 0
63 20473 41929649 ad0s1 8 freebsd
165 41929650 10236 62894474 ad0s2 7
fat 12
62894475 100361 268435454 ad0s3 8 freebsd 165
268435455 63409 398297087 - 12 unused 0
And please, answer me. this is rather important. I'll answer any
questions as soon as i can.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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