Hi all....I'm back to emailing on a Mandrake 6.1 system, and it
sure feels good!! The problem is it's a new install and I was
not able to recover any part of the old install's root
partition. It appeared to be totally hosed.
However I do believe that I've discovered a probable cause.
When I originally set up for the installation I used PM4 to
create the partitions. I created an extended partition with
three linux partitions in it, two ext2 partitions and a linux
swap partition.
But on the subsequent fdisk scans (after the corruption of the
partition table had occurred) I (finally) noticed that the
extended partitiion was a type f, instead of the proper type 5.
Type f is listed as 'Win95 Ext'd (LBA)', whereas a type 5 is
listed simply as 'Extended'.
Anyway, I suspect that having 3 linux partitions inside a Win95
extended partition probably is what allowed my root partition to
get corrupted (I figure it was totally overwritten somehow, but
that's just a guess).
So, thanks to those of you who tried to help.
Alan
