Hi,
Thank you all for answering my plea for help.
Special thanks go to Oswald B. and David W.. I took
your sagely advice and I've managed to retrieve all
of my data.
I was wrong in remembering that hda2 was a primary partition.
It was a logical partition. Changing between primary and
logical
> Ok so far, I've only recreated a primary partition and that doesn't
> seem to work. I guess I'll try setting it as a logical partition and
> see if it restores things back to normal.
>
> A quick question. If the partition was originally a primary partition,
> and now I'm setting as a logical par
Quoting Martin Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> So to answer your question, yes I did run 'dos fdisk' but I did not
> modify/change anything when I quit.
That's good. DOS invariably (I think) forces you to reboot if you
make changes because its idea of how to label the partitions is
so bizarre, so
Quoting Martin Bishop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I don't have the start of this thread anymore. You have linux on
> > this machine? If so, I'd try and mount the partition readonly from
> > linux rather than going anywher
> > > There is also usually a backup of the dos fat 6*512 bytes into the
> > > partition:
> > this is a copy of the boot sector, not the fat.
> >
> > > Possibly this location could be different depending on the parameters
> > > used when formatting, the size, the fat size (12, 16, 32). But there
>
Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > There is also usually a backup of the dos fat 6*512 bytes into the
> > partition:
> this is a copy of the boot sector, not the fat.
>
> > Possibly this location could be different depending on the parameters
> > used when formatting, the size, th
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 10:48:31AM +1000, Martin Bishop wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I don't have the start of this thread anymore. You have linux on
> > this machine? If so, I'd try and mount the partition readonly from
> > linux rathe
Hi David,
Thanks for replying.
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't have the start of this thread anymore. You have linux on
> this machine? If so, I'd try and mount the partition readonly from
> linux rather than going anywhere near it with other OSes. I don't
> think linux looks at t
Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hmm ... how did you use dos fdisk at any time? if so, then you _might_
> have a problem. but i guess, you used only cfdisk for the whole
> repartitioning.
After booting into Win98 and couldn't see hda2, I ran 'dos fdisk' to
check the partition to see
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