On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > Brian wrote, > > > *- 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. > > > See if http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/980823/1311207.shtml > > provides any help. The topic of this discussion is "Corrupted Hard Drive". > > thanks; this helped greadly. The answer is, "yes", if you remember the partition information, for the e2fs file system. THe dos fat sectors didn't seem to make it, though :( But i only tried this on the harrd drive, not the zip; i'm still waiting for an answer there >
1) Can you please not write paragraphs all on one line. Your composer might be wrapping the text for your eyes, but it's not wrapping it for the rest of us. 2) "regardless of what it put on /dev/hda2". Is that why your dos fat sectors didn't make it? 3) AIUI zip disks are partitioned just like ordinary ones, with one exception: they are supplied with a single partition, but it's partition number 4. You should be able to recreate this effect with fdisk, though not with cfdisk. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
