From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 17 09:27:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE4F3E5 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:27:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talayeh.asadi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E1EF15 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 9so6258811iec.32 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:27:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:reply-to:sender:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=vierbmzBFT7SuT8us+bfPIStr/6Hhw5XpiRK6jvNFlA=; b=DRElvDqkiXPNdE6RBPt5oszvTYTiVWlH8usrmepTLCQ8V+sZ5mTUNSa/1JP/Vy4qVn mpe25vQQfNgGQlPpHTh1eFrJNv3VtrSg9ne6Qc7QHDEsanYZxNiqSYCaoiy844bnzWDR c2UMI7aqGBigt9jhmneSZZrzvZHfd/wW7RoWqcF9c5jRqD6jCM+YS6ILgAaEvcWDIOSZ ux9GD1Y/XeKVrm+j0CiPXySiUQALqWPhdTylluulEc/bjREVHv/5Vpc/uuyksY6aCSFM rmE4va1RWlqnz2Y4V3cNbGD2x30YUKCDaNVHXha3AtDky6rFPm7JDZymyNk74N6CFsOr IO/A== X-Received: by 10.50.47.202 with SMTP id f10mr767974ign.8.1361093234370; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:27:14 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: talayeh.asadi@gmail.com Received: by 10.43.125.130 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:26:54 -0800 (PST) From: takCoder Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330 X-Google-Sender-Auth: H-4yFNMrheQ3Ww_SDxpWa7tM1cA Message-ID: Subject: bsd lost partition recovery To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: tak.official@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:27:15 -0000 hi everyone, maybe this question is somehow off-topic but now i'm in an urgent need of any recommendations.. *here's the question:* how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?! *and here's what has happened to me:* i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main HD attached to may system as well.. all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main HD's bsd partition instead!!! would someone please tell me how can i restore it?? i'm really in need of my data there and have no idea right now.. Best Regards, t.a.k P.S. i'm asking this question here cause i thought it may need a special tool to recover freebsd formatted lost data.. i had no time for googling it till now..i'm going to do that now.. sorry for taking your time..