I believe the "Server" option under install will wipe all your hard drives
of all data. I don't think there's any way to get your data back now.
Unfortunately, you'll have to re-install Windows now.
-Matt Stegman
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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 ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dr Bernard Pidoux, MD, PhD
>
