From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 19:44:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5512C16A4CF for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from niobe.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CC443D2D for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (localhost.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) by niobe.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EBA1DD43D; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from niobe.ijs.si ([193.2.4.66]) by localhost (niobe.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18604-06; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from rincewind.ijs.si (rincewind.ijs.si [193.2.4.137]) by niobe.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53971DD43C; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:32 +0100 (CET) From: Dejan Lesjak To: Evan Dower Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402160444.32412.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new / Sophos+Sophie at ijs.si cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering Damaged Partition Table X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:44:37 -0000 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