From: Chris 

GOOD NEWS!!!!!  If you so dumbly blow away the wrong partition on your
computer, all is not lost.  I'm happy to promote this program called Active
Partition.  You can get it at http://www.partition-recovery.com and the
paid version is only $29.99 US.  I'm raving about it because oit just saved
me a TON of reinstallation and some lost data.  It works at the hardware
level and reads the actual sectors on the drive to determine the layout and
the paid version will restore this information to your hard drive, saving
your ass.

Happy Friday and (I'm going to) have a great weekend!

/Chris


Chris wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I downloaded FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and burned the CD's.  So far so good. I
> tried to install it and chose my partition, etc.  All went well until I
> rebooted into Windows on the same computer which was installed 1st.
>
> My partitions look like:
> C: == Windows partition including my profile
> D: == Applications/Games/the bulk of my crap
> E: == My mom's backup of her "old" system (discussed here previously)
>
> I discovered that I blew away the wrong partitions and lost my D: and E:
> drives.  My install of FreeBSD failed in that it never found the source
> info to even format the partitions I created.  Does anyone know if there
> is a way of recovering my system, ESPECIALLY the D:?  E: is backed up
> onto DVD, so it's not a big loss.  My mom's computer is functioning fine
> anyway.  This really blows that I screwed up so bad and really am not
> looking forward to reinstalling Windows XP.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

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