From: Chris 

YEP!  I was truly impressed, especially since this is a raid system, but it
saw it correctly.

ok, g2g..cya

/Chris


Geo wrote:
> did it recover everything?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Chris"  wrote in message
news:42323664$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>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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