On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Guin, Jay wrote:
>In order to make sure that I did nothing to my dos partition (Windows
>95) I used the "d" option (delete) in fdisk to get rid off hda1. I
>feel that this is the mistake I made. Thereafter I repartitioned hda2
>for all the appropriate partions (root,swap,home etc.) for Linux and
>the installation went fine. At the end of it I am using LILO as my
>booting utility which I installed in the Master boot record.
That was an error!
>After completing my installation when I reboot LILO staright away
>takes me to LINUX
>and I don't know how to boot to Windows95. In fact if I use a DOS
>bootable floppy I get to A: but it no longer recognizes my hard drive
>(i.e. when I do dir C:, it says drive not found)
Yeah, seeing as how you deleted it.
>Have I made a mistake beyond repair? I found in the documentation for
>fips that I might still be able to run Linux's fdisk (by booting from
>the Linux boot floppy) and restore the partition (hda1). I tried this
>and was able to create hda1 with the "n" option of fdisk. I changed
>the system type and boot indicator (*) as shown above to make sure
>that it looks the same as when it did the first time. But I did not
>have the confidence of saving the output fdisk and came out of it. Do
>you think I should proceed in this manner?
Can't say it's beyond repair but, good luck.
If it any reassurance, I've started partitioning everything on a drive and saved
it (using Linux fdisk). After realizing I didn't mean to partition that drive, I
went back, re-repartitioned, wrote it to disk and mounted the drive. All was
still there.
BUT: that was on ext2 filesystems and may not work so great on the overweight
(er,,,fat) things.
For sure, you'll have to make sure you have the settings right for the original
partition. If any of it was overwritten by Linux (save the mbr), it's lost (for
the best, trust me).
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