Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:02:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Macuser <Macuser@psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I've erased my entire hard drive! Message-ID: <19990619090207.P2863@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <376A3890.E3DB4930@psu.edu>; from Macuser on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:16:22PM %2B0000 References: <376A3890.E3DB4930@psu.edu>
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On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 12:16:22 +0000, Macuser wrote: > I bought the free BSD software from you and I botched the job. I erased > the entire hard drive. I have a laptop with a 5-Gig harddrive and > 192-Meg RAM-Is this enough space for your operating system plus Windows > 98 plus several intensive software packages? Could you specify what > optimal partitioning should be adopted? What should I include or > exclude from an installment of BSD? Where did I go wrong when I erased > the contents of the drive? I will probably ask more questions later? Before you do anything else, be very sure that the data is really gone. It could be something as simple as a changed Master Boot Record, in which case your data is still all there, but if you continue you may yet overwrite it. But, as has already been said, you need to describe what you did. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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