HELP! bsdlabel undo?

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larrypatrickmaloney

Well I think I made a big mistake.

I was creating a second partition on my single drive, to do a dual boot FreeBSD / Windows XP install. The XP partition is (was) in place.

I didn't make a back up. :(

I ran bsdlabel and typed in the XP parition instad of the FreeBSD partition.

Is it possible to undo the bsdlabel command, after it has written to the drive?

Can I re-run bsdlabel and set the partition back to NTFS?

Is there a DOS/Windows utility that can repair this mistake?

I have NOT run fdisk and I have NOT run newfs on this partition.

Can I salvage the partition? Can I restore the partition to before bsdlabel without a backup?

I know, I should have made a backup (go on tell me, so you can get it out of your system. :)

Larry
 
I don't think FreeBSD can rewrite Windows bootcode.
Maybe you can boot the XP install cd into repair shell and try fixmbr or fixboot. It worked for me a long time ago.
 
Thank you MG, but....

Thank you very much for such a quick reply.

I am planning on trying that, I haven't done it YET, but does bsdlabel does more than just install boot code.

I did bsdlabel -w ad0s1 auto

(I used the "auto" layout)

ad0s1 = XP parition.

Larry
 
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