On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:11:44 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list > > After a reinstall of winxp, yes I know but the games.
You like playing with obsoleted OS imitations, that's okay. :-) > I have a fat32 slice/partition/postcard whatever it's called. It should be called a slice, because slice refers to a "DOS primary partition", and those are covered with a FAT or NTFS file system directly (unlike BSD which puts partitions into a slice to carry more than one file system). But postcard is also okay. :-) > Mocking me with: > > testbox# fsck -y -t msdosfs /dev/ad4 > ** /dev/ad4 > Invalid signature in fsinfo block > Fix? yes > fsck: /dev/ad4: Floating point exception: 8 > testbox# Very strage. You're not supposed to fsck /dev/ad4 I think, but you should name the _slice_ where "Windows XP" is installed on. That should be something like /dev/ad4s1 (if it's the 1st primary partition on that disk). Furthermore, -t msdosfs looks strange. As far as I know, the "newer" versions of "Windows" come with NTFS as the primary file losing system, so -t ntfs should be worth a try. The command should be something like that: # fsck -y -t ntfs /dev/ad4s1 or # fsck -y -t msdosfs /dev/ad4s1 if you have _not_ formatted the postcard using NTFS, but FAT (which corresponds to msdosfs). > Anyone know what to do, is there a msdosfs fsck? Yes, it's a native tool called CHKDSK.EXE. :-) Really: You should first use the native tools provided by "Windows" to fix a problem that seems to be a "Windows" problem. If everything fails, you can always relapse to forensic tools running on FreeBSD, or simply load your backup sets. There's also emulators/mtools in the ports collection which might contain tools useful in this situation. If you've just accidentally tried to fsck the wrong device file, just forget everything I mentioned and use the correct one. However, I'm not fully sure if FreeBSD's fsck can be used to _really_ perform file system checks on FAT or NTFS partitions, erm postcards. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"