*- Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote about "wfwg 3.11 trashed my partition table" | | thanks, bill. | | I tried to install windows for workgroups from diskette on my thinkpad, on the | existing dos partition. | | regardless of what it put on /dev/hda2, it trashed my partition tables. | | If I reenter the same valued for the partititons, will my e2fs partition | survive? or do I have to reinstall. | | For that matter, the same question for dos: when my zip died, it trashed the | partition table of the disk in the drive, as well as the next I tried to | insert (which is why i was trying to install from a stray stack of disks | rather than my backup). Assuming the files itself weren't trashed, can I | recover this (Okay, I shouldn't have bought an iomega product, but at the | time, it let me continue to use the old powerbook for the kids rather than my | wife running off & spending $3k on a new machine :)
See if http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980823/1311207.shtml provides any help. The topic of this discussion is "Corrupted Hard Drive". -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
