Barry Pollock wrote:
Ok, but...Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2 partitions from the primary and linux can read 4
- In my case I didn't use DOS 6.22, I tried with Win95, Win98, WinXP
- I had just one partition
- On the new disk I created the new partition with linux (and the file system too) and after restoring the boot sector everything went ok, so
Anyway for Jeetu problem: you didn't say with operating system is installed on the machine (or I missed that ;)
I would try recovering the partition table before resorting to create a new partition and restoring backup.
Massimiliano
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