> I found a Win98 bootdisk, ran fdisk /mbr on C:, but Win95 still did > not boot. Then I booted into Linux, reran lilo with /dev/hda1 (the > Win95 partition) as the thing to load, and got an error message > (something about invalid partition specification). This did not bode > well, I went into cfdisk to check, and indeed - the disk is 'empty' > now, the MBR wiped clean. > Oops ... As this is not usual fdisk behavior (well, what is usual at M$ ...), i guess, it considered the partition table to be invalid.
> Nothing to do then except to give it to a technician at our University > (Koebenhavn), who suggested that he might be able to rescue at least > the most important files. > *possibly* you can still rescue your data by yourself. but it would require, that you know your *exact* old partitioning. you know, linux [c]fdisk is non-destructive, that is, if you repair your partition table and the filesystems themselves are ok, then you'll be able to make a 100% recovery. if you don't know your exact old partitioning, you could search for boot sectors, superblocks, etc. with some diskeditor. but well - that's all a bit adventurous ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
