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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:14:49 -0400
From:      PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   boot sector f*ed
Message-ID:  <4A816EC9.7070408@videotron.ca>

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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

PJ



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