I had it worse. I don't know how it did - but the Mandrake installation
fucked my NTFS partition ID's...
People, please - again and again and again - MAKE BACKUP BEFORE YOU'RE
INSTALLING NEW DISTRIBUTION!
I know this advice sounds very old - but its the best advice you can
get.
Hetz
Shlomi Fi
Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> I had it worse. I don't know how it did - but the Mandrake installation
> fucked my NTFS partition ID's...
>
> People, please - again and again and again - MAKE BACKUP BEFORE YOU'RE
> INSTALLING NEW DISTRIBUTION!
>
> I know this advice sounds very old - but its the best adv
That is really wierd. I don't have exactlty that combo: I have Win NT on C
(FAT), D (NTFS) and then Linux on one system; on another system, I had NT on
C (FAT16) and D (NTFS), OS/2 on E (HPFS) and then Linux.
1. Try and get hold of the 2-diskette DOS version of Partition Magic (or
something equal
- Original Message -
From: "Daniel Feiglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Shlomi Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: Win98 cannot see 2nd fat32 partition after
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Henry Ficher wrote:
[or rather, heavily overqueted, and THEN wrote]:
> Record to a known condition. fdisk /mbr will save you ('r ass) more than
> once. I mostly use Norton Utilities Rescue Disk, but there could be others
> just as good I don't know of.
excellent emergency
Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Henry Ficher wrote:
>
> [or rather, heavily overqueted, and THEN wrote]:
Sorry. But I did snip a bit. :-\
>
>
> > Record to a known condition. fdisk /mbr will save you ('r ass) more than
> > once. I mostly use Norton Utilities Rescue Disk, but there cou
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Henry Ficher wrote:
> >
> >lilo -u and you would not have lost your access to the linux partition.
> you where to put Lilo. The Gnome WS install doesn't, which is nearly fatal if
> you have a boot manager like System Commander or Boot Magic.
again, lilo -u undos the "fatal
Henry Ficher wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Daniel Feiglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Shlomi Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:37 PM
> Sub
Sadly I can say being there done that or in more detail:
Mandrake just introduced me to a new partition type:
id:85 name:Linux extended
It changed the usual (this days) number 2 extended partition
from id: f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) to the above.
WinXX did not like it and of course ignored it's FA
p;shin;&lamed;&yod;&shin;&yod; 27 &yod;&vav;&nun;&yod; 2000? 23:57
> To: Shlomi Fish
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?;? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Win98 cannot see 2nd fat32 partition after mandrake 7.1
> install(fwd)
>
> I had it worse. I do
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