Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
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
[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
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
Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
At 05:20 03/03/00 -, you wrote: 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. I have read in several handbooks that one should always install windows first, then Linux, because Windows creates this sort of problems, especially Win 98. Now, I think you could handle it the foll. way. Make a fake upgrading: boot on Linux installation Cd, choose expert mode, confirm the partitions you have, istall one small package (or delete one and reinstall it), then say go!. This would reinstall LILO and you might boot. If partition tables are corrupted, though, this wouldn't be enough. In this case I don't know what to suggest you, apart from reinsalling everything... Piero Caracciolo 54, rue de Bourgogne 75007 Paris - France
Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions
Did you try creating a win98 boot disk, booting from it, and at the prompt enter fdisk/mbr to see if that fixes the partition table? condeuser wrote: 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
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
