Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-21 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:43:38 +0400 (MSD), you wrote: Hi Arkady! >JL> Are you creating pri1 as Primary partition, pri2 and pri3 as extended? > As I understand, Bernd says about _three PRImary partition_. The mailing list have timing problem. This email was sent before he say he make 3 primary

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Сен-2004 11:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>pri1 15GB NTFS, >>pri2 20GB FAT32 label WD74F32DATA (I think) >>pri3 35GB NTFS label WD74BIGDATA JL> Are you creating pri1 as Primary partition, pri2 and pri3 as extended? As I understand, Bernd says about _

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
People, I solved my problem with the partition table stuff, using a program called TESTDISK (license: GPL). DOS version (FreeDOS is mentioned) is at: http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk-5.3.dos.zip website: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html all those DEMO windows-packages, and the

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:44 PM 9/19/2004 -0500, I wrote: If you can get Knoppix up, I'm sure several of us can walk you through a save of critical files to CD-R/W or, worst case, floppy. Hopefully not all 20G to a floppy. Forgot to mention, the best way I found to transfer files in and out on Knoppix boot -- fast

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:34 AM 9/20/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Are you creating pri1 as Primary partition, pri2 and pri3 as extended? No, multiple primary partitions. It's just 3 partitions, so perfectly valid. thanks for your comments though. I cannot back up anything if I cannot access anything. I prefer 20GB

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: Are you creating pri1 as Primary partition, pri2 and pri3 as extended? No, multiple primary partitions. It's just 3 partitions, so perfectly valid. thanks for your comments though. I cannot back up anything if I cannot access anything. I prefer 20GB FAT32 + 35GB NTFS over 55

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-19 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 04:44:45 +0200, you wrote: Hi Bernd, >my win2000 system with a Western Digital 74GB disk (10.000rpm, 8MB >cache, SerialATA) >is behaving weirdly. >pri1 15GB NTFS, >pri2 20GB FAT32 label WD74F32DATA (I think) >pri3 35GB NTFS label WD74BIGDATA Are you creating pri1 as Primary

Re: [Freedos-devel] partition recovery help requested

2004-09-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Here's what the logfile says of this piece of software. hope it allows anyone to give me detailed instructions. 2nd drive btw, so only drive '81' info given. first entry (40 million 512byte-size sectors) and last entry (70 million 512byte-size sectors) seem to match my 20GB/35GB partitions hope