On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:42:49 -0700 Robert <travelin...@cox.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 03:53:09 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > > Ian > > I am in the process of dd the entire disk to a 1TB disk but I wanted > to respond to you. You have given a lot of good advice and > information and I appreciate it. > To all who responded to my ntfs fiasco, not only do I thank you but the wife passes along her thanks and makes the point that she didn't need a second bottle of wine. :-) The above dd operation finished late last night but I didn't start working on until this morning. Using FreeBSD it acted exactly as the other dd attempts did, i.e. I could mount_ntfs /dev/ad6 and see the same as I did before but ad6s1 failed to mount as ntfs. ad6s1 would mount with no fs specified but nothing was readable. I rebooted into Windows XP and to my surprise the computer restarted right after the desktop rendered. I then booted into safe mode with command prompt. This booted successfully and then I changed drives until I found the data I was looking for. The 1tb drive, now showing as 500GB, appeared as drive G: I ran chkdsk against g: and after finding and clearing several errors it quit without completing. I tried to boot normal and the computer rebooted after the desktop rendered again. I then booted into safe mode and it came up and ran OK. I was able to open the drive and see the data I needed. I inserted a thumb drive and copied the data over. I'm her hero again and we will have the second bottle tonight. :-) Thanks again to everyone for all the great help. Robert _______________________________________________ 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"