deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: > Just as soon as FreeBSD 8.0 came out, I downloaded a boot-only disc > image and went off to reinstall FreeBSD (don't ask why). OK, it worked > whatsoever. But as it turns out, I wasn't able to boot my Windows XP > installation anymore. The system just froze when I tried booting my > Windows XP slice. First I thought that the installation damaged the > other partitions (someone added buggy code in sysinstall lately?). At > that point I didn't dare to boot anything on the disk. I decided to > give a try to Hiren's Boot CD, which has loads of warezed > slicing/partitioning, recovery and backup tools, and also a loadable > Mini Windows XP. I hoped I would be able to find out what happened. > > But guess what? Neither of the Boot CD tools were able to start up, > not even the Mini Windows XP! They all froze just like my Windows XP. > But that's just weird. On a whim, I disabled my disk drive in the BIOS > settings. And guess what? Both the Mini Windows XP and the tools were > able to start because of that. I was able to read the > slices/partitions with them, and noticed that all my files on the > FAT32 and NTFS slices were intact. [...] > sysinstall asked something new when I installed 8.0, something like > "It is safe to use a disk geometry of 123/45/6789 on modern > computers... Would you like to use this disk geometry?", I chose > "Yes". Safe my ass. I guess my computer doesn't fit in sysinstall's > definition of "modern".
Reinstalling FreeBSD and chosing "No" seems to have revived the Windows partition.
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