This is offtopic, but, this answer is for sure late as well !!!! ;-)))) Not long ago a similar thing happed to me: - From DOS I could only see drive C: and all partitions were <= 2G - As I had a MDK9.0 in another partition I decided to do a "mkfs -t vfat" to the "D: partition" so as to convert it from NTFS to FAT32. It wouldn't work. Finally I found that WindowsXP installation damaged my partition table so it still said D: was NTFS while it already was FAT32 (even had copied some files from linux in it). - Finally (all from linux) I did a copy of partition table just in case "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=64" and restored an old one from lilo boot copy: "dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446". Everything went OK again and had again a D: with FAT32 filesystem and the files I had copied from linux!!
If MBR/partition table was the guilty, I would read man info about dd, parted and gpart, and of course get parted boot disk from internet and backup my own partition table, just in case. Anyhow, I wish everything is already OK by now. El vie, 20-12-2002 a las 09:01, Emily Chan escribió: > sorry guys, as I have the same email address registered to different mailing list, >just made a mistake by carelessness. Sorry if i have disturbed you guys! > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Mcleod, Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:22:21 +1100 > Subject: RE: [expert] Can't find my D: and E: > > umm - and this has WHAT to do with LINUX?? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emily Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Can't find my D: and E: > > > Hello, > > I was trying to install winXP in my computer this week. I had win98 then > in C: and would want to keep it and install winXP in E:. After install files > were copied, the computer was restarted but then an error occured, and I got > to know I needed to disable my Goback (made by Roxio)to avoid this error. So > I disabled my goback, but then I couldn't enter my win98 anymore. I booted > it from the floppy and could only go to DOS. And what surprised me was that > under DOS, I only found my C: (4G) and couldn't find D: (10G) and E: (6G), > however, it could detect that my whole disk is 20G (which is correct). I had > it in my other computer as the slave disk, I still couldn't find D: and E:. > And Goback can't be enabled either. So anyone knows how to find out my D: > and E:? Has anyone met such situation too? I would be so appreciate for any > info provided. > > //Tinka > > > > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia / \ Spain \ / |__ __| \/ ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Postales Felicita las Navidades con las postales más divertidas desde http://postales.yahoo.es
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