Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 22:07:01 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk Message-ID: <20121105220701.6d066cc3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <loom.20121105T202352-200@post.gmane.org> References: <mailman.71.1351857602.2182.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <BLU0-SMTP2000A2F18699724EBB86133F6670@phx.gbl> <5093CF85.4080708@eskk.nu> <BLU0-SMTP966722287B4A0D9F796405F6670@phx.gbl> <50961DA6.1000308@eskk.nu> <BLU0-SMTP3788749583C3169A69DDF7CF6650@phx.gbl> <BLU002-W1715108F886B6E6B7B679E9F6650@phx.gbl> <50977F6B.7070501@eskk.nu> <BLU0-SMTP7063D122D4C7FC74322CF9F6640@phx.gbl> <loom.20121105T202352-200@post.gmane.org>
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:25:25 +0000 (UTC), jb wrote: > Manish Jain <bourne.identity <at> hotmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > Hello Leslie, > > > > The short answer is No. And it would need more than a miracle to salvage > > the situation if the partition information is lost. > > ... > > I am wondering if this could help: > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk It's also in ports: sysutils/testdisk. >From my "famous list of data recovery programs", something else comes to mind which probably won't restore the previous state, but could be used to obtain the data: fetch -rR <device> Also recoverdisk could be useful. The ports collection contains further programs that might be worth investigating; just in case they haven't been mentioned yet: ddrescue dd_rescue magicrescue testdisk recoverjpeg foremost photorec fatback Note that those also emphasize data recovery in the first place, and some of them even work "without file system". Then also ffs2recov scan_ffs should be mentioned. And finally, the "cure to everything" is found in The Sleuth Kit: fls dls ils autopsy In worst case. Just in worst case. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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