Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:39:12 -0500 From: "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com> To: "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org>, "Malcolm Kay" <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Please help. Can't see HD Message-ID: <200312290635.hBT6ZCU6000355@mail1.acecape.com> In-Reply-To: <200312291457.13426.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:57:13 +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: >How big was the image you copied to the disk? -- that should tell >you how much of your drive is overwritten. The image was about 4MB. >It is probable your disklabel has also disappeared, so you >probably need to reconstruct both the slice table in the MBR and >the disklabel in the first slice. With some vague recollections of >what you did originally to install FBSD it is possible that some >lucky guesses might work. How would I go about that? >If you can find the first sector of a slice carrying an installed file >system then this might hold a copy of the slice table allowing >reconstruction of the original MBR with some confidence. How? Other than not playing around with dd how can one safeguard from something like this in the future? Is there a way to backup the disklable and slice info? After all this is cleared I am also going to check what is the best way to keep a working copy of my entire system. On windows I have a program, driveimage, which I use to every night keep an image of the entire disk while the system is on. Has saved me many times..
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