From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 09:35:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C05678 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:35:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152B08FC08 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379135E3BF for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:26:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.487 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.487 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.645, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qIVU45muNLeL for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from bsdpc01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-043-059.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.43.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BA6F5E494 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50924049.1020400@eskk.nu> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120626 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:35:08 -0000 I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program was supplied with the new disk. When trying to clone that partition the process couldn't finish because it needed a chkdsk command to be executed before cloning. I ran a chkdsk c: with the choice of correcting errors. Somewhere in that process the chkdsk program touched my freebsd partition in a way so that it now is recognized as NTFS. That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as recent as I would have liked. Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd partition? Thanks /Leslie