Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:41:08 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk Message-ID: <5093CD74.4080102@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20121102072245.58e95da5@scorpio> References: <50924049.1020400@eskk.nu> <20121102072245.58e95da5@scorpio>
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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
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