----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] missing partitions
> *If* you have a hardcopy output of your partition table, you can use
> fdisk to re-create the identical table and most likely the data itself
> is ok.
>
> I have done this successfully before.
>
> If you don't have a hardcopy output, you can try to remember it;
> otherwise, I hope you made backups frequently.
>
> max wrote:
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > I seem to have lost my linux partitions from my laptop. I had
> > Mandrake 7.1 installed on hda5 to hda10 with windows on hda1, the
windows
> > partition is ok (hence me writing this in outlook). On booting up LILO
> > loaded but only displayed 'LI', so I rebooted with a dos disk and ran
'fdisk
> > /mbr' which fixed the windows partition. I then booted off the Mandrake
disk
> > and tried to mount the linux partitions but it couldn't find them, on
> > running fdisk in linux it only reported hda1, hda2 (which wasn't there
> > before) and hda5 (which it couldn't mount). I have run out of ideas on
how
> > to fix this so I was hoping someone on this list could help.
Have you tried using your install disk to "upgrade"? Maybe it'll list all
the partitions.
dm
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Max
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