John,
It sounds an awful lot like your partition table has been corrupted. If
you enabled supermount during the install I would suggest that you now
disable it. If that is even possible at this point.
Next, if you have a copy of Norton System works stick the CD into the
CDROM, bring up Disk Doctor and check your partition tables. If you don't
have that utility, then try Partition Magic. That may also detect and fix
the problem. If, in the event you don't have any of these there is still
one option left as far as utilities go. Scan disk the partition. That
should detect the trouble, and should be able to fix it.
Before you do ANYTHING, however, I strongly suggest that you enter Linux,
create a dir to warehouse ALL the files that are currently on that
partition so that you don't lose any data in this process. "COPY" the data
from the partition you're having trouble reading in Windows. Don't
"move" the data, just do a copy. That way after you've run what ever
utility you are going to run you will be able to check and see if it was
successful.
If, for some reason you're unable to solve the problem with any of the
above methods there is of course one course of action that I know will
work. When you've copied the data succesfully in Linux, boot back into
DOS using a CDROM Setup boot floppy, or any windows startup disk, check to
make sure that you're able to 'see' the partition from fdisk, then
reformat the partition.
Your first and best thing to do though is "fix" the partition table that
has been broken. I get the impression that when you mounted the partition
from Linux something happened to that table. I've heard of this happening
although I know that it is the exception and not the rule. That's why
asked you earlier if you had supermount enabled. I've heard that this can
be rather destructive when used with some hardware.
--
Mark
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John Azeke (Big John) wrote:
> I have 2 hard drives. One has Mandrake installed on it. The other has 2
> windows partitions (C and D). Windows is installed onto the C: Drive and
> D: has all of my personal windows files.
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver
> wrote:
>
> > Ok...first question. Is this "partition" we're talking about on a seperate
> > drive from the one that contains your windows installation? I'm assuming,
> > of course, that this is the case. At any rate, if you can see the files
> > and the partition for that matter while running Mandrake then they're
> > still and haven't been deleted. And Linux hasn't moved them. For what ever
> > reason though Windows can no longer see this partition.
> >
> > If you can move the files to another drive. Preferably the partition which
> > contains your Windows installation and we'll go from there.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
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> > On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, John I. Azeke wrote:
> >
> > > I was looking at some of my windows 98 mpeg files under L. Mandrake 7.1
>yesterday and when I rebooted the computer into windows, The partition of windows
>that contains all of my personal files was gone! Confused, I went back into Mandrake
>and the partition was still present with all information. I don't know why I can't
>see it under Windows.
> > >
> > > When Mandrake is performing its shut down sequence, There is a FAIL on "stopping
>identd services"
> > >
> > > I have tried:
> > > 1) detecting new harware under windows... No Good
> > > 2) unmounting the drive under Linux before restarting... No Good
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me?
> > >
> > >
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