Hi Paul There is a way recovering lost/destroyed partition table. When you are done with your partitioning and installing necessary OS'es, do 'fdisk -l /dev/hdX' from command line.With Linux fdisk, not the DOS one (replace X with a for ide1, b ide2 etc.). Then write the output down or print it. That way you have something to start with if the tables get "lost" again. Remember to update the info if you modify the partitions after installation. For recovery you have to have somekind of media to run Linux from, a rescue floppy or rescue-CD. For example the Mandrake installation CD includes rescue mode IIRC. That is of course if the BIOS supports bootable CD-ROMs.
I have used this method couple of times with success, once Window$ decided it's not happy with current partitions and ate the partition table. So I booted Linux (with floppy) from the other hard disk and restored the partition table with the info provided by fdisk. The important sections from fdisk -l output are Device, Boot, Start, End, Id and System. 'man fdisk' for additional info. Cheers, J. On Wednesday 13 March 2002 05:37, you wrote: > Is it just *ME*!? > > I tried the suggestion for doing an update install of the Mandrake 8.1 > and the whole thing went *HAYWIRE*! > > For some reason, it still wanted to mess around with *partitions*! I > got mixed up and must've clicked the wrong button and it destroyed my > partitions set up... Totally unrecoverable!... My regular windows boot > couldn't even *see* the C:\ drive! >
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