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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.flinet.com!not-for-mail From: "Immortal" <webmaster@global-impact.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Good GOD, I'm ****ed! Date: 28 Apr 1997 15:17:27 GMT Organization: Florida Internet Corporation Lines: 55 Message-ID: <01bc53e7$d0302c20$e5180ed0@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm11-37.flinet.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39865 The HORROR story. System setup: P133; 100mb RAM; d1) 2.1gig IDE d2) 1.1 gig SCSI; etc. d1) NT4.0; WIN95; DOS d2) FreeBSD 2.2.1 * Installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on the SCSI drive (d2). * During the installation, we told it to install its boot manager on d2 the SCSI drive. * After completing the installation proceedure, we deselected our IDE drive in our BIOS and booted into (d2) no problem. Everything worked GREAT! * Selected our IDE drive in our BIOS and booted into (d1) no problem! NT4.0; WIN95 and DOS where working GREAT! [[[[ Here's when the NIGHTMARE began! ]]]] After booting into the FreeBSD 2.2.1 on (d2), 3 time, its MBR migrated over to our (d1) rendering our (d1) useless! Yes, MIRGRATE is the proper word! We have not found anyone able to tell us how it found its way over to (d1); Almost VIRUS like! shhhh! We tring FDISK /MBR using a WIN95 / WINNT4 / DOS 4 / etc boot disk to try to get back into our (d1) IDE drive but everything FAILED! NO DRIVE LETTER UNKNOWN FORMAT DRIVE NOT READY And other drive ERROR messages. After 4 days of trying to get into (d1), the primary IDE drive, and failing, we sent the drive away and spent over $1,300 dollars on DATA RECOVERY! [[[[ The GOOD News ]]]] They were able to reconstuct/rebuild the entire drive with zero out of 19,000 files lost! We lost over $1,300 in our bank account but learned a valuable lesson which we could not put a price on! L E A R N F R O M O U R M I S T A K E !!! ...auto-migrating MBR [glitch / virus / one-time problem / ????] you pick it and beware! Operations Manager, Global Impact, Inc.