Well??? fdisk will not see everything, and some weird things appear
sometimes like partitions that seem to be mirages etc. try a program called
Ranish Partition Manager which is fairly comprehensive BUT read the manuals
first!
----- Original Message -----
From: "condeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
> Thanks, Tony ,for the reply ;but this doesn't seem do it.
>
> Thoe new to Linux I've had Windoze do this to me before and have been able
> to recover using a boot disk to reinstall lilo.
>
> Something other then the usual impertance of Windoze seems to have
occurred.
> Thoe I said win 98 only seems to occupy the 2.5 Gb partition I had win 95
> in ,and this is true while in windows,if you go to dos and run fdisk,or
the
> Linux equivalent,they see the entire disk as one Win98 Fat32 partition.
>
> Now I'm pretty positive that the time taken to format the partition for 98
> could not have formatted the entire disk;so I think its not just that mbr
> has been overwritten by doze but that its dozely written a false one.
>
> If this is true is it possible to recover from this without wiping the
disk
> completely?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
>
>
> > Microsoft OS as always, overwrote the MBR
> > You need to use your Linux boot disk and reinstall LILO
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "condeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 1:20 AM
> > Subject: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
> >
> >
> > > Hi penguinistas,
> > >
> > > Not sure if this is a Linux or Windoze problem. Thoe,I suspect,the
user
> > > needs a thorough debugging.
> > >
> > > Recently installed Mandrake 6.1 dualboot with Win 95 on an IBM
deskstar
> > 13.5
> > > Gb(new)
> > > disk- 2.5 for 95 and 4, I think, for Linux. .All seemed fine and
bigfun
> > > seemed assured with trying to coming to terms with Linux.
> > >
> > > Then I had the opportunity to update to Win 98 (it seems a bit more
> > stable)
> > > and I did a clean install and after 2 days of installing programmes
and
> > > service packs I tried to boot into Linux without result. Linux will
not
> > > even install as it thinks the whole disk is Fat32;thoe 98 still thinks
> its
> > > only 2.5 in size. I ran disk doctor from Norton Utilities 4 and it
> finds
> > an
> > > error in the mbr which it tries and fails to correct. Unfortunately
the
> > > Partition-It I have does not work with disks larger then 8 Gb's so I'm
> at
> > a
> > > loss.
> > >
> > > Is their anything I can try before wiping the disk and starting
afresh
> > with
> > > hours and hours reinstalling as,doubtless,my well deserved reward.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Conor
> > >
> >
> >
> >
