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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good GOD, I'm ****ed!
Date: 29 Apr 1997 18:40:46 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Immortal
wrote on 28 Apr (in article <01bc53e7$d0302c20$e5180ed0@default>):
=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
Welcome to microsoft world :)
=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!
Mmm. How about backing it up from FreeBSD (booted from d2), then mounting
it with mount_msdos?
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"