Hey, powerquest Lost & Found. About $50. http://www.powerquest.com/lostandfound/index.html It can save Most if not all of your data. Just stop screwing with the drive until you use it. I've saved my ass with this program to many times to count. Dacia --- Lance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > charles: > > Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed > someone's advice on > Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k > recovery console (**I DO NOT > have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the > fixmbr and fixboot commands > as suggested, and it said it rewrote the mbr ok (to > C:). I then restarted and > it said NTLDR not found (which I guess is the Win2k > bootloader). I then booted > with a Win98 boot disk to check and see if my data > was still there, and all it > had listed was *one* 9gig file (which is about > about right in terms of data, > but not 9gigs in just one file!). Also, in FDISK, it > is reporting my Win2000 > drive as FAT12, and not FAT32! I then ran Partition > Magic and it has my Win2k > drive1 listed as FAT32X with a 7.8 MB "free space" > partition (?), and drive 2 > (the Mandrake drive) says "critical error 110" > partition table corruption (or > something like that) When I go back into Mandrake > and browse my Win2k drive, it > lists about 100 small byte-sized executable files > with garbled labeling for > each file (i.e. "0112tgs.exe")...So, 2 years of work > and 10 gigs of data all > lost, or so it seems right now. Not to blame or diss > Mandrake, but I have > installed/used extensively Redhat 5.0, 6.0, 6.1, > Suse 6.2, and 6.3 (my last > distro), and this is the absolute WORST experience I > have ever, ever, had with > Linux. Lilo doesn't work, My CD-Rom will not work, > Mandrake has no phone > support (SuSe and Redhat do) and now 10 gigs of data > GONE. It's ironic too, > because Mandrake has this "easy to use and install" > perception about it, but > that was by no means my experience with this > product. At any rate, I'd like to > thank the people that have helped out. > > Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > Lance > > No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his > advise for repairing your > > MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to > restore your MBR or any > > part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 > Rescue disk(not the set of > > 4 install disk, but a Rescue disk you made in > Win2000). If you boot to your > > Install CD without using the Rescue disk the > installer Will Not be able to > > find your existing Win2000 partition and you will > not be able to do a > > restore install only a new install. This has > happened to me in Win2000 so I > > have first hand knowledge of what I am saying. > > If you do not have a Rescue disk you will not > be able to repair the MBR. > > If you have data in Win2000 that you need to save > the only way that I can > > think of that would work is install either Win2000 > or Win98 to your 2nd hd. > > and then copy the data to it. > > I had no data to lose so I did a new install of > Win2000 and the first > > thing I did afterwards was create a rescue disk. > > > > Charles > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com
