Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:50:12 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk Message-ID: <50938944.5040709@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211012134300.31970@wonkity.com> References: <50924049.1020400@eskk.nu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1211012134300.31970@wonkity.com>
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2012-11-02 04:39, Warren Block skrev: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: > >> >> >> I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD. >> >> My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd >> slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home). >> >> In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program was supplied >> with the new disk. >> >> When trying to clone that partition the process couldn't finish >> because it needed a chkdsk command to be executed before cloning. >> >> I ran a chkdsk c: with the choice of correcting errors. >> >> Somewhere in that process the chkdsk program touched my freebsd >> partition in a way so that it now is recognized as NTFS. >> >> That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in >> retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as >> recent as I would have liked. >> >> Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd >> partition? > > If all it did was change the partition type, that should be easy to > change back with gpart modify. Untested example below, make a backup of > the disk as it is right now first. Clonezilla will make a (large) > binary backup. > > # gpart modify -i2 -t !165 ada0 > _______________________________________________ > 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 use sysinstall and fdisk to find the disk, and I get Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 256977 257039 ad12s1 4 unknown 22 257040 163702350 163959389 ad12s2 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7 163959390 812813778 976773167 ad12s3 4 NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7 It's ad12s3 that's my freebsd slice gpart show ad12s3 returns gpart: No such geom: ad12s3 How do I proceed? Thanks /Leslie
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