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
> >
>
>
>
