From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 00:05:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D899E106566B; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473F78FC0C; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so2165532fxe.13 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:05:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BZL9j0DP+rOlQhTfUZbwkqHJlkxcI/tU8ooZ91Gby6k=; b=epi4+W1m85IsP/1qu7s29qoNQ0Kx3Cgjhodcngw1sxaPVZjYX8mv9ch8ib7oFyNObZ 3HkdgbCBFYYJx+A8toN65WD0QoUhs/HQIYySvUmYzyVu2SATrl9EV4Vc5eFHRS3FCsgf 7Yx+svpYFv3JPi2nA1v6EBJrEgeFM90fi1Itw= Received: by 10.223.62.200 with SMTP id y8mr218311fah.96.1313710594702; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (hotel.grandberoun.cz [90.182.105.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w16sm2109562fah.44.2011.08.18.16.36.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:36:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Varga To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:36:30 +0200 Message-ID: <1313710590.1742.5.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current , Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:05:18 -0000 On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 16:24 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual > partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I inconveniently > forgot that geom can't grok secondary PC MBR partitions, was fooling > around and cleared the partitions, etc. I hit abort to exit the > partitioner start and from scratch and now my Windows partitions and > recovery partitions are gone. > Well, there's "gone" and there's really "gone" (but obviously, this is not a pleasant situation in any case). Just as a quick reminder for anyone who might not know (as this happens regularly) - sysutils/testdisk should be able to recover those cleared partitions pretty easily and put them back in place. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)