On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Mario Michael da Costa wrote: > > man that gotta hurt. i am still pretty much a newbie, but what i would > try to do is put in the mandrake cd and boot from it. when it comes to > the disk partitioning part check to see if it recognises the FAT32 > partition. if it does then maybe all is not lost yet. discontinue the > install and then connect the hdd to another windoz pc and see if that > will read the partition. if yes then recover your data from there. or > if you have a spare hdd, load windblows on that and then boot of that > with your orig hdd connected as slave, and try. > OR > since you said FAT32, maybe you can boot of a win 98 se floppy with > windblows fdisk on it and try 'fdisk /mbr' it is possible that only > your mbr is corrupt. you will lose lilo though, but this is easily > recovered IF you make a linux bootdisk first or simply "upgrade" your > linux with the same distro that you have. > > keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best, > mario > > > -- > "The software said 'runs on Win95 or better,' so I installed it on > Linux"
Mario, Thanks for your suggestions, but the partition is toast. I had a peek through my older backups and found a fair slew of the files I lost, so I'm not *that* destroyed. :) Regards, -- Ashley Reynolds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
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