Re: I am such a fool! How to recover my data?

2006-10-17 Thread Mad Timekeeper
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:53:14 +0200, Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no FreeBSD expert... yet - so I would revert to Windows. So this is what I would do: 1. Use whatever software I can lay my hands on to make a full copy of the disk (your disk 1, I think), e.g. Norton Ghost or

Re: I am such a fool! How to recover my data?

2006-10-17 Thread Mad Timekeeper
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:39:17 +0100, Mad Timekeeper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Then I would get the full details of the partition table as it is now. In my case I would use Norton's utility ptedit.exe, which you can download from their ftp site. You'll need to make a windows boot floppy (or CD

I am such a fool! How to recover my data?

2006-10-16 Thread Kyrre Nygård
Hello, thanks for checking this out! My hard disk and I are in a rather tight situation right now. I believe my partition table's system ID is messed up. Other things are probably messed up too, however I have not done anything which would constitute a format of my data -- hence I hope that

Re: I am such a fool! How to recover my data?

2006-10-16 Thread Kyrre Nygård
I forgot to mention that yeah, everything thinks my hard drive is FAT now. I disconnected hard drive 2 long time ago too, so it's out of the picture. And if gpart fails me now, I have no idea what to do. I hope I don't have to invest in some proprietary data recovery software. All the best,