On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
>
> I have to hard disks on a Pentium pro PC system. Booting Win98 or Linux
> from different partitions using lilo did not work on both drives. So I
> decided to have one disk with Win98 and the other with Linux.
> I was happy I could boot from one disk with Win98 and the other with
> Linux until I made a new installation of Linux mandrake 6.1 with server
> class option on /dev/hda. Thes installation was a succes.
> But while doing this the installation process apparently erased the
> win98 FATand boot sector on hdc1 hard disk.
> I am pretty sure the disk has not been formated but I don't know why the
> installation removed the boot record and the FAT on Win98 drive.
>
> Before I re-install Win98 on /dev/hdc, does somebody have any solution
> to recover the data on the win98 drive ?
if you have a backup of the partition table, and have not written anything
to hdc# yet it is recoverable.
> Thanks,
>
> Dr Bernard Pidoux, MD, PhD
> Assistant Professor
> Service d'explorations fonctionnelles neurologiques
> Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere
> 47-83 Boulevard de l'Hopital
> 75651 Paris Cedex 13
>
>
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