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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>
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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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