From: Chris 

At this point, I think only the partition table was what got changed. The
installer seemed to have lost where the installation media was...I have 3
CD's and I was not clear which was which, so it never seemed to find the
right install point.

Since it is only the partition table(s) that need checking, what utils
might I consider, so I can at least try to make a backup of the drive
before I reinstall everything


/Chris

Geo wrote:
> there are some unformat utilities but they don't work real well and it
> depends on the type of format you did. Save yourself some trouble and just
> reinstall it.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Chris"  wrote in message
news:422fe7ae{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>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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