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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!night.primate.wisc.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!cheema From: cheema@Jupiter.SPARCO.Com (Mubashir Cheema) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Trying to recover from a hard disk crash, need help Date: 6 Nov 1995 09:24:49 -0600 Organization: Sparco Communications Lines: 22 Message-ID: <cheema.815670530@nntp.msstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.sparco.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #59 (NOV) Hi all, After moving to a new hard disk and the new release of FreeBSD I left the old one "hanging" in there in case I needed something off of it. The drive wasn't screwed in place but instead was just sitting sideways and mounted under /mnt. Last night it started acting strange and the system wanted me to do a fsck manually after a reboot. I did an "fsck -y" as the errors were too many to handle manually (I tried!). After that I rebooted and almost half my directories under /mnt were gone. Some of them had important data that I didn't get a chance to copy over. I have it on tape but it is not updated, so if I can't get my files back I won't go kill myself but might have to skip a few lunches. The drive is an IBM 540MB IDE. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Mubashir Cheema cheema@sparco.com