On Mar 03, 1997 at 05:54:28PM -0800, Thought wrote: > If your old drive was for DOS, does DOS see the partition anymore? For > example, is there still a C: but it's unreadable (Invalid Media), or is > there just no C:? I've accidently been in a fdisk (I think it was linux) > and deleted one of my DOS partitions on accident, and got REALLY lucky > because I booted off a DOS bootdisk and ran fdisk and re-created the > partition of exactly the same size before and all my files (FAT and all) > were still there. I ran scandisk and lost 4096 (one block) somewhere, but > I just disregarded it and counted my lucky stars.
Argh; never use DOS FDISK to recover lost partitions; it deliberately wipes the first few bytes of the partition; the manual page for fdisk (Linux) mentions this in the warning about creating DOS partitions with Linux fdisk. Once a friend of mine wiped another friend of mine's DOS partition. I recovered it with Linux FDISK (from a floppy because he was not a Linux user). I lost the partitions on my Linux server once and recovered that with Linux fdisk too. -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [**** ] 40% PGP key available from web page above.
