On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, upendra gandhi wrote: > > hi all > > I regret after installing lilo on /dev/hda1 where my win 98 was installed from >/dev/hda2 which is root partition for RH linux bcoz > > i configured lilo.conf to install lilo boot loader on /dev/hda1 insted of /dev/hda >and that caussedd win98 FAT16 partition's file allocation table get damaged now >though the data is there around 1 gb (on 2047 MB partition c:) i am not able to read >that drive......Well i have tried scandisk and accessing that drive from another >partition > > like linux and other win 98 (/dev/hda4) but nothing works!!!!!!!!1 > > Well how can i get bak my important data??????????
Okay, so this is what I would do .. standard disclaimers apply !! Though it is quite unlikely that your data should become inaccessible just because lilo overwrote the mbr. How have you tried accessing it ? You are a bit vague here. anyway..here goes.. from linux lilo -u then boot from a win 98 boot disk and do fdisk /mbr this will rewrite the windows mbr. after this, boot from the Linux install CD, choose upgrade, uncheck all the packages and this will re-install lilo. This time make sure you load lilo on the mbr of the linux partition. How have you managed to get win 98 on /dev/hda4 ? or is that just an extra partition for win 98. If you don't feel too confident, maybe posting the output of echo p | fdisk /dev/hda would help. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linux Enthusiast. Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/ _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
