Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:44:32 +0100 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering Damaged Partition Table Message-ID: <200402160444.32412.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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Evan Dower wrote: > So, the other day I was ripping some CDs... > > Upon restart, there was a message that ad0 had an unrecoverable error > (media changed). It's a hard disk. I didn't notice any gnomes breaking > into my computer and changing it on me. No matter. It won't boot. I > installed FreeBSD on an empty partition of another disk, which is how I > got to where I am now. Naturally, I have no backups. > > My plan is to reconstruct the partition table and then all should be fine. > I've determined that my files seem to be in tact using 'strings /dev/ad0 | > less'. It even looks like part of the partition table remains. > Hello, You can try with this utility: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ which is also included on knoppix live-cd (http://www.knoppix.org/) I just saved two NTFS partitions with it, so I hope this helps... Dejan
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