We need help!

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We have a crisis and are in need of assistance.

We lost our hard drive Sunday and it appears that our root drive is trashed. However on the same physical drive we have 2 other logical drives containing our data. We believe the data to be intact on these drives

We obtained a new drive, loaded the operating system and we also have the old drive in the machine. Now we need to access the data on the old (non root) drive. We have tried the Mount command and it fails saying that it cannot find the connection point.

Can anyone point us in the right direction so that we can access our data on the old hard drive?

Thanks in advance,
Len, Albuquerque, NM

 

[edfair]

On 3.2v4.2:
You have to create a hard drive mount point. Mkdev hd. It should create /dev/hd1a thru 1h or thereabouts.
Reboot.
You run mkdev hd again to create the filesystems. In your case I think you run divvy on the drive to get the info needed for this step and be careful not to create a new filesystem.
Then you mkdev fs to attach it.
This is from memory since I haven't done it in 2 or 3 years. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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