Okay, that's just wierd. I think Craig might be right about it being a
partially installed recovery cd thing.
Of course, that would point to a hardware failure or bad sector or something
in the MBR or partition record causing it to show up as a non-dos partition.
Hmm. Win2k can read fat32, right? Someone back me up here.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:13 AM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Re: partition help
:
:
: 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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