Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-02 Thread Brian Butler
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Now, we need advice on the best way to get this found partition > > > information > > > into the table on the disk. Is it even slightly smart to just fire up > > > fdisk > > > or cfdisk and go to town? > If you know exactly what the partition informat

Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-02 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Brian, you can do it with any program that can edit a partition table, including Linux fdisk and Norton's Disk Editor. Another possibility is the DOS based partition table editor from PowerQuest called ptedit. That program is freely available from PowerQuest's ftp site. The file you want is peted

Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Dean Struss wrote: > Brian Butler wrote: > > > Now, we need advice on the best way to get this found partition information > > into the table on the disk. Is it even slightly smart to just fire up fdisk > > or cfdisk and go to town? If you know exactly what the partition inf

Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-02 Thread Dean Struss
Hi Brian: I have norton's utilities and the main thing they stress is don't install during a problem. Something about screwing up files while trying to install. If you already have it installed I have the manual for ver 3, I can look through for you. Dean Brian Butler wrote: > Now, w

Re: partition table lost [and found]

2000-02-01 Thread Brian Butler
Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There's a DOS based program called findpart that may help. You can find > it here: > > http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm Olaf's software has done it! We grabbed findpart from the above, made a DOS 6.22 system disk, put it on there, and just ran it accor

Re: partition table lost

2000-02-01 Thread Tom Pfeifer
There's a DOS based program called findpart that may help. You can find it here: http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm If you do a search on Deja News for findpart, you'll find some posts on it, and some are answered by the author that may help explain how to best use it. There's also a Linu

Re: partition table lost

2000-02-01 Thread Brian Butler
Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can you still boot linux with a boot disk? I had a messed up partition > table at one stage (but not as messed up as your friend's) but linux > could still distinguish the partitions and read all of the data on both > windows and linux partitions (windows could

Re: partition table lost

2000-02-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Can you still boot linux with a boot disk? I had a messed up partition table at one stage (but not as messed up as your friend's) but linux could still distinguish the partitions and read all of the data on both windows and linux partitions (windows couldn't read anyting after booting from a floppy