My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk

[Manish Jain]

Hello Leslie,

The short answer is No. And it would need more than a miracle to salvage 
the situation if the partition information is lost.

Sorry if I broke your hopes.

But to look at the brighter side of things :

1) You would never have learnt so quickly so much about 
Windows/FreeBSD/things to do/things not to do had you not run chkdsk
2) Niue is a beautiful country with a great landscape to cheer up even 
the most regrettable scenario


Regards

Manish Jain
+91-99620-10329

On 05-Nov-12 14:27, Leslie Jensen wrote:
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> Manish Jain skrev 2012-11-04 12:37:
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>>> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:41:45 +0530
>>> From: bourne.identity at hotmail.com
>>> To: leslie at eskk.nu
>>> CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: My freebsd partition changed by Windows chkdsk (Leslie
>>> Jensen)
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>>> On 04-Nov-12 13:17, Leslie Jensen wrote:
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>>>> Manish Jain 2012-11-02 19:18:
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>>>>> 1) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD, enter the slice editor and
>>>>> change the type of your FreeBSD slice back to 165. Do not press Q.
>>>>> Press W instead. Conform with Yes to the warning, and then press
>>>>> Ctrl+Alt+Del to abort the installation.
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>>>>> 2) Boot from your FreeBSD CD/DVD again, and run boot0cfg -B in an
>>>>> emergency shell.
>>>>>
>>>>> <My legal disclaimer comes here, but do let me know if you get lucky>
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope my message sounds less cryptic now. I personally don't have
>>>>> anything against running chkdsk or fixmbr, AS LONG AS I have backed
>>>>> up the important sectors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Manish Jain
>>>>> bourne.identity at hotmail.com
>>>>>
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>> Just in case you are not aware how to change the filesystem type in
>> the slice editor,
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>> highlight your FreeBSD slice and press T. Make sure you enter 165 as
>> the filesystem
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>> type, and then press W and confirm the change. Then press
>> Ctrl+Alt+Del and reboot.
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>> Regards
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>> Manish Jain
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>> bourne.idenity at hotmail.com
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> Thank you for the advise you have provided.
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> I did as suggested and it was no problem at all.
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> Unfortunately it seems as if the partitions was destroyed as well. When
> I look at the slice with the label editor it's empty. So chkdsk did a
> thorough change unfortunately.
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> Can you think of anything that would bring back the partitions?
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> /Leslie
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