Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:10:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupted partition Message-ID: <19990211141015.B71962@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902110328.TAA12973@footech.com>; from Doug Jolley on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 07:28:52PM -0800 References: <199902110328.TAA12973@footech.com>
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On Wednesday, 10 February 1999 at 19:28:52 -0800, Doug Jolley wrote: >> Is this the DOS partition? > > Yes. > >> You can't fix them with fsck. > > OK. So that's one of my problems. > >> If Microsoft supplies any tools for file recovery, use them under a >> Microsoft platform. > > What would you think about my just re-formatting the partition? > I'm well backed up. BTW, it's a bootable dos partition; so, > I would re-format with the /s option. You mean DOS format (in other words, newfs)? Yes, I suppose you could do that. But I'm not a Microsoft expert :-) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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