Ill second that, a copy of the partition table has saved me on a number of occasions AS LONG as you have not formatted.
Particularly with certain predatory operating systems :) "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > noah noted, > > As you can imagine, I quickly ran out of space on the Win98 partition, so, > > using Linux's fdisk, I created a new FAT partition. Then I booted to > > Win98 and formatted this new partition. Windows was fine with this. > > However... > > > When I rebooted to Linux, all the logical partitions were gone, and the > > extended partition had really screwed up attributes. ARGH! I was able to > > use the gpart program to scan the disk for ext2 superblocks and rescue a > > couple of the partitions, but not all of them. So, it seems to me that > > Win98 must have all its partitions in place and formatted before Linux is > > installed...I think. Maybe Win98 will always screw up extended > > partitions, not just when it's used to format them. > > I'vehad a couple of catastrophesthat have hammered partition tables. > I've found that if I create new partitions in the exact same places, I > get my data back. It's useful to have an fdisk printout of your > configuration around. > > Also, if you partitioned with cfdisk during setup, you may need to > use it to create those partitions--I've seen sligthly different > behavior from them, and haven't been always been able to recreate cfdisk > partitions with fdisk > > rick > > -- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null