From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 13:49:39 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 6E935F3 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:49:39 +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 1B50B8FC15 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6915E197; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:49:38 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.486 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.486 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.644, 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 0GzgXuGlyaUd; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:49:33 +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 078B95E16C; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:49:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5093CF85.4080708@eskk.nu> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:49:57 +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: 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: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:49:39 -0000 Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-02 14:39: >> 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? > > I trust that you by now have discovered that your trust was never breached > by Microsoft (for once). Microsoft firmly believes that Windows is the only > OS that should reside on a PC's disk. Therefore running chkdsk with force > was only an invitation to Microsoft to run amok. > > BTW, the reason I replied to this message was not to provide you with a > solution but with a trivial yet good bit of precaution I use on my own > dual-boot PC, wherein ad4s1 is NTFS/Windows and ad4s2 is my FreeBSD slice. > Right after installation of FreeBSD, I ran : > > dd if=/dev/ad4 of=ad4.512 bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/dev/ad4s2 of=ad4s2.512 bs=512 count=1 > dd if=/dev/ad4s2a of=ad4s2a.512 bs=512 count=1 > > No matter how Windows screws up the MBR or FreeBSD's slice, recovering from > the situation is simple enough. > > 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" Thank you for your comment. I must admit that I do not fully understand what it is you do. Will you explain the details, Please? Thanks /Leslie