My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk
Leslie Jensen
leslie at eskk.nu
Thu Nov 1 09:35:08 UTC 2012
I've replaced my dual boot hard drive with an SSD.
My hard drive had one 100 GB windows partition and one 300 Gb Freebsd
slice with five partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home).
In order to move my Win7 partition a Norton Ghost program was supplied
with the new disk.
When trying to clone that partition the process couldn't finish because
it needed a chkdsk command to be executed before cloning.
I ran a chkdsk c: with the choice of correcting errors.
Somewhere in that process the chkdsk program touched my freebsd
partition in a way so that it now is recognized as NTFS.
That I trusted the chkdsk program to do what I told it to do was in
retrospect a bit naive ;-) I do have a backup although it's not as
recent as I would have liked.
Can you think of any way to perhaps recover the data from the freebsd
partition?
Thanks
/Leslie
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