ai4a wrote: >Robin Turner wrote: > >>This'll teach me not to mess around with dangerous operating systems. I >>installed Norton Utilities in my Windows partition, and it seems to have >>rewritten my partition table so that my Linux partitions don't exist any >>more. Rescue mode in the CD won't work (I can get a command line, of >>course, but can't restore LILO or mount any partitions) and that old >>diagnositc favourite, "upgrade packages only" mode fails to find the >>superblocks and gives me messages about "bad magic". Is there any way I >>can recreate my old partition table, either from command line or from >>Windows? >> >>Sir Robin the Morose >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > >ronib: > >There is a program on Mandrake 8.2 cd1 in /sbin called rescuept. Boot >from cd1, press f1, and follow instrucrtions. But before you do this go >to www.mandrakeuser.org/doc/admin/arecov3.html and read the >instructions. ther are not instructions on the resuce cd (that I could >find). Good luck > Tried rescuept to no avail. Eventually I got so fed up I decided to do a clean reinstall. My partition table was so badly mangled I had to remove my Windows partition even to do that. Fortunately (a) I'd backed up a lot of data to my Win partition not so long ago and (b) I'd set up my office box with FTP, so I just needed to download an FTP client for Windows, then upload my stuff. Things are now back to normal, except that I have no Windows yet, which I can live with, as I'm not in the mod for playing games just now.
Sir Robin
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