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From: alanp@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: How can I get DOS back after disklabel?
Date: 2 May 1994 18:58:44 -0700
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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I had a disk drive that had both DOS and Net-BSD 0.9 on it.  I wanted to
change the way the partitions are set up within the UNIX portion of the 
disk (split wd1e into wd1e and wd1f).  I ran disklabel, and now I can't
access the DOS portion of the disk any more.   Initially, the DOS partition
information was all erased, and I tried to use pfdisk to set it up like
it had been before.  But this didn't help.  I was able to have DOS recognize
that the drive is there, but I got a Invalid Media Type error when I tried
to access it.  I don't think the data has been erased, but I don't know
how to get at it anymore.  Does anyone know of a way to get it back.  I don't
care if the NetBSD stuff gets removed in the process, since it was new, but I
have a lot of things in the DOS disk that I want back.

alan
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alan pearson

alanp@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu                                 UC Berkeley EECS