From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 07:47:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77630D8F for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 07:47:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D0B8FC18 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 07:47:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A42E5E227; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 08:47:19 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.485 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.485 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.643, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id YvMxPTrGTtct; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 08:47:17 +0100 (CET) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from [172.17.0.111] (c-195-216-043-059.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.43.59]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734BB5E224; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 08:47:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50961DA6.1000308@eskk.nu> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:47:50 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manish Jain Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie Jensen) References: <5093CF85.4080708@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:47:29 -0000 Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 19:18: > 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and > change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q. > Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press > Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation. > > 2) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD again, and run boot0cfg -B in an > emergency shell. > > > > I hope my message sounds less cryptic now. I personally don't have > anything against running chkdsk or fixmbr, AS LONG AS I have backed > up the important sectors. > > Regards > > Manish Jain > bourne.identity@hotmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I've attached the disk to a running Freebsd system 8.3. Which program do you reefer to when you write slice editor? I do not need to be able to boot from the disk. I just need to be able to read it and copy my /home to another disk. Thanks /Leslie