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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jack <jack@xtalwind.net>
To:        Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Primary partition info erased
Message-ID:  <Pine.FBS.3.95.960916184127.1083C-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <323D61F1.44BA@nation-net.com>

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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Paul Walsh wrote:

> Is there a utility to help restore the primary partition information for 
> a disk with a fipsed freeBSD partition?
> 
> I'm not really sure how it got lost , but it was while I was using 
> Win95, a couple of crashes later and I could no longer boot from the 
> disk.
> 
> BIOS finds it but then that's it.

Try booting from a DOS disk and running fdisk /MBR  


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