Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:39:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108182032550.20342@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1313710590.1742.5.camel@xenon> References: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com> <1313710590.1742.5.camel@xenon>
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Michal Varga wrote: > 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. Or back up the GPT sectors first. dd if=/dev/ada0 of=gpt.bak bs=512 count=35 Or really, back up the whole disk first. Clonezilla is handy for that.
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