I just installed Storm Linux 2000 (rain release), and I think I might have
blown away my Win95 installation. I had originally intended to dual-boot
Win95 and Storm. Here's the deal: My pc already had Windows 95a installed
on the primary hard disk (5.1 GB). This hard disk had 3 FAT partitions (2
2GB and a 1GB). This pc also had a second 1GB hard disk that wasn't being
used, so I decided to install storm on that disk. When I came to the
"Partition your hard drive" part of the installation, I chose "Express
Setup" (maybe I should have gone through "custom"?). I was then asked what
I wanted to partition, and I was only given one selection: hdb1 (1033MB) -
which I took to indicate my second disk. I proceeded through the rest of
the installation relatively problem free. When I did get to the part
regarding the LILO, I was only given an option to load Linux from hdb1, with
no indication of any operating system on hda1, which worried me somewhat,
but nevertheless I continued. Of course, when I rebooted, I could only boot
into Linux. I had made a Win 95 start-up disk prior to installing Storm.
When I booted off of that, I couldn't get into any of my original wondows
partitions. Oops. So I ran fdisk and got the following information:
Fixed Disk 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
1 A Non-DOS 2008 100%
2 Non-DOS 2902 100%
Fixed Disk 2
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
1 A Non-DOS 933 90%
2 Non-DOS 100 10%
Things were looking pretty bad. But then I booted into Linux and ran its
fdisk utility and got the following:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 256 2056288+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 257 626 2972025 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 257 517 2096451 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 518 626 875511 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb1 * 1 474 9555552+ 83 Linux Native
/dev/hdb2 475 525 102816 82 Linux Swap
So fdisk in Linux is seeing what looks to me to be my partitioning scheme
for the Win95 drive (although I don't really understand what the extended
partition is). And I think it's also interesting that the first partition
on both drives are marked as bootable.
My question is: Is my Win 95 totally blown away or not? And if not, how do
I get it back?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Paul Gallagher
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