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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: I can't boot anymore !!
Date: 14 Apr 1996 18:35:50 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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gorski@cips01.physik.uni-bonn.de (Achim Gorski) writes:
>
>I've destroyed my bad sector table!, while playing with 'badsector'
>The boot-process says:
>Bad bad sector table
>And nothing happens anymore !!
>All disklabel entries are lost!
>Is there a way to get my data back ???

The fixit floppy.  Make a copy of it, boot the install floppy, select
F)ixit, and try repairing.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)