From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 13:40:54 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 40598CB7 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:40:54 +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 B2DEA8FC17 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2FF5E17B; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:40:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.486 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.486 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.644, 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 aNKt8U-7IbV3; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:40:44 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.111] (c-195-216-043-059.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.43.59]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072625E197; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:40:43 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5093CD74.4080102@eskk.nu> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:41:08 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk References: <50924049.1020400@eskk.nu> <20121102072245.58e95da5@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20121102072245.58e95da5@scorpio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jerry 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: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:40:54 -0000 Jerry skrev 2012-11-02 12:22: > On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:26:33 +0100 > Leslie Jensen articulated: > >> 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? > > Let me get this straight. You ran the program with the "/F" flag, or > perhaps the "/R" flag which implies "/F", the program then did exactly > what it was designed to do and now you are bitching about it. Like an > attorney who never asks a question of a witness without knowing what > the answer is going to be, never run a program and then hope it somehow > magically knows exactly what you want it to do. Actually, in this case > it did exactly what you wanted it to do. Next time run "chkdsk" sans > flags and it will only report what it would have done. > Yes I ran chkdsk c: /R It was not my intention to be bitching about it. I just realized that the outcome or the result of the command was not what I had expected. I thought that c: would make chkdsk work only with c:! I've now learned the hard way that that is not the case. Usually the nice people here on the list can and will help even when someone makes a mistake. I hope that there will not be a next time ;-) /Leslie