there is 1 partition on the disk and it takes up 100% of the disk space and
reads as non-dos.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Doom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: RE: partition help
> 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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