From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 11: 7:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E824837B569 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15353; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA75833; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007091809.LAA75833@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20000707143739.02155eb8@mail.cpl.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:09:18 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Shawn Ramsey Subject: RE: fdisk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Jul-00 Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I just fdisked a FreeBSD partition in DOS fdisk. I havent done anything > else since. Is there a snowballs chance in hell that Norton (or something > else) can recover this? depends on what you did. If you haven't formatted the disk, you just need to change the partition's FS type to '165' decimal, or 'a5' hex. That's also assuming you didn't change the size of the partition. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message