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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:36:30 +0200
From:      Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Well, there goes Windows!
Message-ID:  <1313710590.1742.5.camel@xenon>
In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com>
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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)





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