From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 11 13:22:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5600106566B for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:22:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782DB8FC45 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9A799EBC0A; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:22:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:22:14 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: PJ Message-Id: <20090811092214.e38fd90c.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4A816EC9.7070408@videotron.ca> References: <4A816EC9.7070408@videotron.ca> Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.0 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot sector f*ed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:22:20 -0000 In response to PJ : > I just finished setting up 7.2 with all my programs installed, > configured & working fine with recovered files all working fine and just > as I boot up to start backing up everything... WHAM... the boot-up > kind-of hobbles and boots up. > I am called away from the computer and when I return - goodie, goodie, > there is a dump of some 177 mbs and the poor computer is trying to r > eboot... but that's it. And the > I scan the guilty drive and it's the very first, boot, sector that is > Baaaaaad. And the regenerator program doesn't go any further. :-( > Other than booting up with livefs and trying to copy everything to > another disk, is there something else that I should do? > I think it should work if I connect the drive to USB ... > But before, I thought I should listen to some sage advice... :-) > Anyone? TIA I think you've got the right idea. If the drive is funky, get your data off it while you can. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/