Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:13:54 -0400 From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org> To: Venom MaNes <electronicvenom@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wrongly using Fdisk with my 40G hardisk Message-ID: <20020516081354.F2690@trot.haven.dom> In-Reply-To: <F2070R5f94h0FiXiFzQ000139f7@hotmail.com>; from electronicvenom@hotmail.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:18:48PM %2B0000 References: <F2070R5f94h0FiXiFzQ000139f7@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:18:48PM +0000, Venom MaNes wrote: > > >Dear BSD > >I had encountered a problem that my Second hardisk IBM 40G has >been converted to BSD format , original, i have a few partition of FAT >on it, and once is Ext2, but after running FDISK, it said, my whole >second hardisk (40G) becomes to freeBSD format, now, i thought all stuff >is still inside the hardisk,but i can't access it. How could my FAT data >be recovered ? is there any clue for it? > >Cheers. > >Venom > A program called gpart will wald through the whole disk, determine the type and where the partition boundaries are and provide a new partition table so you can mount them again. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html of course it takes a while to run... // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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