Ah. That's a compressed bootable recovery partition. There /is/ data
there, but not userdata. It's a hidden bootable partition that will only
typically be read in the original PC if a special key is held down during
bios load. ('Press the special key.' "I can't find the special key! Maybe
I'll just order a tab.")
Anyway, the data there is basically just a backup of the system used for
restores. The other partition -- should be a primary dos partition if it
was win 9x/me -- will have all of his userdata, programs, etc on it.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:54 AM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Re: partition help
:
:
: not that I've noticed, someone gave this to me to recover it for
: him. I know
: there is data in the partition because the partition even though it says
: non-dos in fdisk is bootable. When I boot to it it says "Gateway GoBack
: press a key to continue" . At that point I just shut it down. I don't know
: what the guy did. I believe he booted his pc with the recovery cd in the
: drive and it booted up and started running.
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Craig Dudley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:41 AM
: Subject: RE: partition help
:
:
: > Oooh IBM hd, not that I want to be the harbinger of doom or anything
: > (that's Ben's job) but they do have an awful reputation for failing,
: > I've had 2 fail myself with quite similar symptoms, has it got a bit
: > more noisy recently too?
: >
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > Sent: 05 February 2003 14:24
: > To: CF-Community
: > Subject: Re: partition help
: >
: > also, I watched the bios on boot up and it shows disk 0 is my 3 gig
: > win2k
: > boot and disk 1 is the 20gig ibm that has a bad partition.
: >
: > ----- Original Message -----
: > From: "Craig Dudley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:11 AM
: > Subject: RE: partition help
: >
: >
: > > If disk manager doesn't see it, then it's not working. It's Possibly a
: > > hardware conflict.
: > >
: > > Try swapping it over to the master disk and booting with a dos disk,
: > can
: > > u then read the files?
: > >
: > > Possibly your master disk is setup to be the master and have no
: > slaves,
: > > there might be a jumper on the master disk to set it up as master with
: > > slave.
: > >
: > > -----Original Message-----
: > > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > > Sent: 05 February 2003 14:04
: > > To: CF-Community
: > > Subject: Re: partition help
: > >
: > > its on the primary controller with the master disk. Its a slave disk
: > and
: > > no
: > > disk manager doesn't see a physical or logical drive
: > >
: > >
: > > ----- Original Message -----
: > > From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:04 AM
: > > Subject: RE: partition help
: > >
: > >
: > > > Win2k Disk manager doesn't see the physical drive or the logical
: > > drives?
: > > >
: > > > Is the drive on a secondary IDE controller? If so are the drivers
: > for
: > > > the IDE controller installed?
: > > >
: > > > > -----Original Message-----
: > > > > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:52 AM
: > > > > To: CF-Community
: > > > > Subject: Re: partition help
: > > > >
: > > > > fdisk see's it as a non-dos partition.. going into win2k and
: > looking
: > > > at
: > > > > it,
: > > > > it doesn't recognize a drive or partition. norton disk doctor for
: > > > windows
: > > > > doesn't see anything either.
: > > > >
: > > > > ----- Original Message -----
: > > > > From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > > > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:49 AM
: > > > > Subject: RE: partition help
: > > > >
: > > > >
: > > > > > Do you have a system that can read the drive?
: > > > > >
: > > > > > If it is Fat16 or Fat32 most partition managers should be able
: > to
: > > > > > recognize it and deal with it. Take a look at Partition Magic,
: > its
: > > > > > pretty good.
: > > > > >
: > > > > > However if they can't see it, it probably means the partition is
: > > > > > corrupt.
: > > > > >
: > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
: > > > > > > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:59 PM
: > > > > > > To: CF-Community
: > > > > > > Subject: partition help
: > > > > > >
: > > > > > > anyone know how or what I can use to convert a non-dos
: > partition
: > > > to a
: > > > > > > dos/fat partition ?
: > > > > > >
: > > > > > >
: > > > > >
: > > > >
: > > >
: > >
: > >
: >
: >
:
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