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From: Zenin <zenin@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Trashed Partition table / slice table HELP!
Date: 19 May 1997 03:39:12 GMT
Organization: Rocky Horror, Barely Legal (Berkeley, CA)
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Partition Magic trashed my FreeBSD partition table.  It set it
to sysid 181 and reset the partition entrys to funky points. -I didn't
actually tell it to do anything with the drive FreeBSD is (was...) on.

Is there ANY way to restore the partition table and the slice table?

Please help.  Thanks.

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