On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:55:32 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark,
>The person who did this is very knowledgeable and believes that >FDISK did, in fact, trash the partition table. I had this exact >thing happen to me when running fdisk. FDISK displayed a bunch >of garbage in response to a display partitions option and then >the partition table was destroyed. This was some time ago. I have seen this ONCE, and I have no way to reproduce it again. I always got errors and FDISK return to DOS, but after reboot it won't happen again for several days, no idea is hardware problem or software bug. >Since the computer was acting up before I did that, I cannot >say for sure that FDISK caused the problem. What's the driver you use? I got the HIMEM 3.00 + EMM386 (old one, can't remember the version) >I am going to run FDISK again on that laptop (an HP Pavillion) >AFTER I back up the partition table! I will do that this evening >and see if I can reproduce a problem. >This was running FDISK WITHOUT an fdisk.ini file. Any ideas? According to the documentation, when no .ini file, FDISK will use it's default parameter. >Is there a safer DOS tool that just shows the partition table? >I know the Linux ones, but not the DOS ones. Try AEFDISK.EXE, maybe there's free tools but I don't know ... http://www.fileboost.net/company/Daniel_Nagy.html Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
