Recovering Damaged Partition Table

[Evan Dower]

Well, it worked mostly. I've got the partition table back and reinstalled 
boot0, but I must be confused about the later boot stages, because I can't 
get the partition I want to boot properly. I can boot from ad0s1a, but I 
want to boot from ad0s2a. I can mount ad0s1a and ad0s2a as well as 
ad0s3{d,e,f}, and everything seems to be in tact. In the bootloader, when I 
hit F2 to boot ad0s2a it just beeps at me. I tried to use 'bsdlabel -B 
/dev/ad0s2', but I must have done something wrong, because it didn't work. I 
also tried 'bsdlabel -B -b /current/boot/boot /dev/ad0s2' where /dev/ad0s2a 
is mounted on /current to no avail. What do I need to do?
Thanks some more,
--
Evan Dower
Undergraduate, Computer Science
University of Washington
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>From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak at ijs.si>
>To: Evan Dower <evantd at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Recovering Damaged Partition Table
>Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:32 +0100
>
>Evan Dower wrote:
>
> > So, the other day I was ripping some CDs...
> >
> > Upon restart, there was a message that ad0 had an unrecoverable error
> > (media changed). It's a hard disk. I didn't notice any gnomes breaking
> > into my computer and changing it on me. No matter. It won't boot. I
> > installed FreeBSD on an empty partition of another disk, which is how I
> > got to where I am now. Naturally, I have no backups.
> >
> > My plan is to reconstruct the partition table and then all should be 
>fine.
> > I've determined that my files seem to be in tact using 'strings /dev/ad0 
>|
> > less'. It even looks like part of the partition table remains.
> >
>
>Hello,
>You can try with this utility:
>http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
>which is also included on knoppix live-cd
>(http://www.knoppix.org/)
>I just saved two NTFS partitions with it, so I hope this helps...
>
>Dejan

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