Try booting with a winblowz floppy and run "fdisk [driveletter:] /mbr"

If that doesn't restore the original FAT tables...then GAME OVER

jk


At 10:24 PM 2/19/2001, you wrote:
>I booted demolinux on a win98 box. It froze while defining a file system 
>in RAM. I did a reboot and cannot access the windows drive under windows 
>or dos.
>   Norton emergency utilities recognizes the disk and the directories on 
> the disk. I suspect the partition table or boot record may be messed up, 
> but am not sure where to start. I am currently limited to
>e-mail for internet access. It wasn't my machine and we need to recover 
>several files if possible from it. Does anybody have any ideas where to start?
>Jim K

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