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> References: <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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